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Genesis 40:15

For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

The verse is Joseph's touching plea to Pharaoh's chief butler while both are in prison together. At that time he is held in prison as a Hebrew servant. He had shown the butler kind interest and kind treatment and help in his great distress of mind by interpreting his dream to mean restoration to the king's favor in three days to deliver Pharaoh's cup as before. On that basis he asks the butler to think on him and remember him when it is well with him, to show him kindness by mentioning him to Pharaoh and bringing him out of the prison house. To support the request he declares his innocence, that he was stolen away and taken by force out of the land of the Hebrews and his people's land and here also has done nothing to deserve being put into the dungeon.

The verse belongs to the account of the butler's and baker's dreams and the three days in Genesis 40:12-20, in which Joseph's interpretations were accurately fulfilled by the butler's restoration and the baker's execution in accordance with the prediction. That predicted event limited to a given time was once only a matter of prophecy and was then fulfilled in accordance with the prediction. The three days stand with other measured periods as proof that God fulfills what He foretells within the time foretold. So the chronological portions of the Bible are as much God's word and as worthy of serious consideration as any other portion, including chronological periods extending to the second coming of Christ as revealed appointed times.