was brought down This follows upon Genesis 37:28.

Potiphar, &c. See note on Genesis 37:36. These words the Compiler seems to have added from E to harmonize the two accounts. J merely read "And an Egyptian bought him"; cf. Genesis 39:2, "in the house of his master the Egyptian." The words "an Egyptian," "the Egyptian" would have been needless in Genesis 39:1, after the full description of Potiphar as "an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard."

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