the chief butler

Family: Egyptians · Role: Pharaoh's chief butler · First appears: Joseph In Prison

After offending Pharaoh (Joseph's), the chief butler and the chief baker were imprisoned in the house of the captain of the guard, accused of conspiring to poison the king and of violence against Pharaoh’s daughter. Pharaoh condemned them to death, and they remained confined for ten years. On the third day after the child’s birth, the chief butler was restored to his butlership.

Relationship record

Life events

• The chief butler and chief baker were imprisoned after offending Pharaoh.(Joseph In Prison · 📍 the house of the captain of the guard)
  • With: the chief baker
  • “they were put in ward in the house of the captain of the guard.”
• Pharaoh condemned the chief butler and chief baker to death.(Joseph In Prison)
  • With: Pharaoh (Joseph's) the chief baker
  • “On account of all these transgressions they were condemned to death by Pharaoh”
• The chief butler and chief baker remained confined in prison for ten years.(Joseph In Prison · 📍 prison)
  • With: the chief baker
  • “The chief butler and the chief baker had been confined in prison ten years”
• Pharaoh restored the chief butler to his butlership.(Joseph In Prison)
  • With: Pharaoh (Joseph's)
  • “on that occasion the chief butler was restored in honor to his butlership”

Joseph In Prison

• friends with the chief baker “When the chief baker heard the interpretation of the butler's dream, he knew that Joseph had divined its meaning correctly, for in his own he had seen the interpretation of his friend's dream, and he proceeded to tell Joseph what he had dreamed in the night:”
• employer: Pharaoh (Joseph's) “The charges laid at the door of the noble prisoners were that they had attempted to do violence to the daughter of Pharaoh, and they had conspired to poison the king himself.”

Also listed in Egyptians — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.