Genesis 41:9 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 41:9

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

BSB

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ASV

Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:

KJV

Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:

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Commentary

2 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On Joseph the Patriarch (397)

Therefore, being warned in a dream by the king, he said: I remember my sin. Indeed, it is late, but I wish it were a true confession! After the sin, you confess what you should have guarded against before the sin. How quickly you had forgotten: Remember me. You certainly know that at that time this was the discourse: but you had deaf ears due to the pride of power, and being drunk with wine, you did not hear the words of sobriety. Even now, remember me, as you confess your sin late.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I do remember my faults - It is not possible he could have forgotten the circumstance to which he here alludes; it was too intimately connected with all that was dear to him, to permit him ever to forget it. But it was not convenient for him to remember this before; and probably he would not have remembered it now, had he not seen, that giving this information in such a case was likely to serve his own interest.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְדַבֵּר֙	vay.da.Ber	and he spoke	H1696 →
שַׂ֣ר	sar	[the] chief of	H8269 →
הַמַּשְׁקִ֔ים	ha.mash.Kim	the cup bearers	H4945 →
אֶת־	'et-	with	H854 →
פַּרְעֹ֖ה	par.'Oh	Pharaoh	H6547 →
לֵאמֹ֑ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
חֲטָאַ֕י	cha.ta.'Ai	sins my	H2399 →
אֲנִ֖י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
מַזְכִּ֥יר	maz.Kir	[am] bringing to remembrance	H2142 →
הַיּֽוֹם׃	hai.Yom	this day	H3117 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 40:14
But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
leads to
- Joshua 2:12
  Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
- Luke 23:42
  Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!”
- 1 Samuel 20:14–15
  And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
- 1 Kings 2:7
  But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.
- 1 Samuel 25:31
  then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your maidservant.”
Through
Genesis 40:23
The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.
leads to
- Psalms 31:12
  I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- Job 19:14
  My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
- Psalms 105:19
  until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.

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02Original language & word study

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04Related verses

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06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Genesis