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Selected Verse: Genesis 39:2 - Strong Concordance

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Ge 39:2 Strong Concordance And the LORD [03068] was with Joseph [03130], and he was a prosperous [06743] man [0376]; and he was in the house [01004] of his master [0113] the Egyptian [04713].
  King James And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
he was in the house of his master--Those slaves who had been war captives were generally sent to labor in the field and subjected to hard treatment under the "stick" of taskmasters. But those who were bought with money were employed in domestic purposes, were kindly treated, and enjoyed as much liberty as the same class does in modern Egypt.
 
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