Genesis 39:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; he remained there in prison.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And Joseph's master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the state prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Joseph’s master took him and threw him in jail, the place where the king’s prisoners were held. While he was in jail,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And he delivered Joseph into prison, where the prisoners of the king were kept, and he was enclosed in that place.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king's prisoners were kept. And he was there shut up.

Genesis 39:20 Cross References

Genesis 40:15

For in fact I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”

Psalm 76:10

Human wrath serves only to praise you, when you bind the last bit of your wrath around you.

Isaiah 53:8

By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.

Jeremiah 37:15

The officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of the secretary Jonathan, for it had been made a prison.

2 Timothy 2:9

for which I suffer hardship, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

Hebrews 11:36

Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment.

1 Peter 2:19

For it is a commendable thing if, being aware of God, a person endures pain while suffering unjustly.