Genesis 40:4

charged Joseph with them i.e. put them under the care of Joseph, who is to be in attendance on them, not as a fellow-prisoner, but as a servant in his master's house. Compare the words of "the chief butler" in Genesis 41:12 (also from E), "there was with us there a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard." This is different from the idea given in Genesis 39:22, where he is a prisoner, and appointed by the "keeper of the prison" to look after the other prisoners.

a season Lit. "days."