Génesis 40:15

15 Porque la verdad es que yo fui secuestrado de la tierra de los hebreos, y aun aquí no he hecho nada para que me pusieran en el calabozo.

Génesis 40:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 40:15

For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews,
&c.] Not the whole land of Canaan, so called, either from the Hebrews sojourning: in it, or from its being given unto them by God; neither of which could be a reason why Joseph, when talking with an Egyptian, should give it this name, and which, it must be supposed, was known to him; but that part of the land of Canaan where the Hebrews had sojourned for three generations, where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had lived, even at or near Hebron; and being persons of great note, and having done great exploits, their names were well known, and the country where they lived, and particularly among the Egyptians: now Joseph does not expose the sin of his brethren in selling him to the Ishmaelites, by whom he was brought into Egypt and sold there; only relates that he was stolen out of his native country, being taken from it without his own or his father's consent: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the
dungeon;
since he had been in the land of Egypt, he had not been guilty of any criminal action wherefore he should be put into a prison, and especially into a dungeon, a dark and filthy place under ground, as dungeons usually were, and into which Joseph was put when first in confinement, though since took out of it: he makes no mention of the wickedness of his mistress, and of her false accusation of him, nor of the injustice of his master in putting him into prison without hearing him; only asserts his own innocence, which was necessary to recommend himself to the butler, that he might not think he was some loose fellow that was committed to prison for some capital crime, and so it would have, been a disgrace to him to have spoken for him.

Génesis 40:15 In-Context

13 Dentro de tres días Faraón levantará tu cabeza , te restaurará a tu puesto y tú pondrás la copa de Faraón en su mano como acostumbrabas antes cuando eras su copero.

14 Sólo te pido que te acuerdes de mí cuando te vaya bien, y te ruego que me hagas el favor de hacer mención de mí a Faraón, y me saques de esta casa.

15 Porque la verdad es que yo fui secuestrado de la tierra de los hebreos, y aun aquí no he hecho nada para que me pusieran en el calabozo.

16 Cuando el jefe de los panaderos vio que había interpretado favorablemente, dijo a José: Yo también vi en mi sueño, y he aquí, había tres cestas de pan blanco sobre mi cabeza;

17 y sobre la cesta de encima había toda clase de manjares hechos por un panadero para Faraón, y las aves los comían de la cesta sobre mi cabeza.