창세기 40:1의 미드라쉬

And it came to pass after these things (Gen. 40:1). May our master teach us which men are counted among the most faithful. Thus did our master teach us: There are three men who are considered most faithful. The householder who sets aside the proper amount for his tithe and is never suspected of neglecting to pay either the terumah or the tithe. No one is more faithful than he. The poor man who is entrusted with a deposit and is not suspected of withholding the deposit. No one is more faithful than he. And the bachelor who lives in a red-light district and does not sin. No one is more faithful than he. You find that no one was more faithful than Joseph, who, though only a lad of seventeen years, lived among Egyptians, concerning whom it is written: Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses (Ezek. 23:20). He was never suspected of immorality. What is more, the mistress of the house in which he lived endeavored every day to entice him by her comments and by changing her clothes three times a day. The clothes she put on in the morning, she would not wear in the afternoon, and those she wore in the afternoon she would not wear in the evening. Why did she do this? So that he should notice her.

And it came to pass after these things (Gen. 40:1). Scripture states elsewhere in reference to this verse: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her (Eccles. 7:26). R. Judah the son of Shalum said: Nothing is more troublesome to a man than a woman. A proof of this is the incident of the golden calf. It is written concerning that event: When the golden calf was erected, there fell of the people that day about three thousand men (Exod. 32:28), while because of a single woman twenty-four thousand perished at Shittim.⁸Twenty-four thousand of the tribe of Simeon died at Shittim because Zimri had sexual relations with Cozbi, the daughter of the Moabite king, Balak. See Num. 25:1–9, 14–15) Therefore Scripture says: I find more bitter than death the woman (Eccles. 7:26). What is meant by her hands as bands? If it had not been written about woman that her hands as bands, she would grasp men in the marketplace.

And when Pharaoh saw what his officers had done unto him, he ordered them to be punished ‎and to be confined in the prison house. And the chief of the guards placed Joseph to wait on ‎Pharaoh's officers, and they were in confinement a full year. And at the end of the year both ‎of them dreamed dreams in one night in the place where they were imprisoned. And Joseph ‎came in unto them in the morning, and behold they were dejected. And Joseph asked ‎Pharaoh’s officers: Wherefore look ye so sadly to-day? And they said unto him: We have ‎dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it. And Joseph said unto them: Relate ye ‎your dreams unto me and God will answer your peace as you desire. And the chief butler told ‎his dream unto Joseph, and he said: In my dream behold I have seen a great vine was before ‎me, and upon that vine I saw three branches, and they grew up suddenly, and they budded ‎and blossomed and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes, and I took the grapes and I ‎pressed them into a cup and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand and he drank. And Joseph said ‎unto him: The three branches that were on the vine are three days, and within three days the ‎king will command and will release thee and they will restore thee unto thy place, and thou ‎shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand after the former manner when thou wast his butler. ‎But think thou on me and let me find grace in thine eyes, that thou wilt mention me unto the ‎king when it will be well with thee, and show mercy unto me, I pray thee, and bring me out of ‎this prison, for I have been stolen from the land of Canaan, and sold for a slave into this place, ‎and also what has been told unto thee concerning the wife of my master, is false, and they ‎have placed me into this pit without any cause. And the chief butler replied unto Joseph, ‎saying: If the king will do well with me as heretofore according to thy interpretation, I will do ‎unto thee all that thou desirest and I will get thee out of this pit. And when the chief baker saw ‎that the interpretation of Joseph was good, he approached Joseph likewise and related his ‎dream, saying unto him: In my dream I saw, and behold, I had three white baskets on my ‎head, and I saw, behold, in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bake meats for ‎Pharaoh, and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. And Joseph said unto ‎him: The three baskets that thou hast seen are three days; yet within three days shall Pharaoh ‎lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shalt eat thy flesh ‎from off thee as thou hast seen in thy dream. And in those days the queen was delivered, and ‎on that very day she bare a son unto the king of Egypt. And when it was reported that the first ‎born son hath been born unto the king all Egypt rejoiced exceedingly, the princes of Pharaoh ‎as well as his servant.‎

Our rabbis said: "The drinks-master - a fly was found in the vial of poterion (a medicinal drink) of his. The baking-master - a pebble was found in his delicate bread." This is what is written 'The drink-provider of the king of Egypt and the baker sinned to their lord' (Gen. 40.1) - in the service of their lord." Rabbi Evyatar said: "They sought to marry the king's daughter - it says here 'they sinned' (Gen. 40.1), and it says there '"How then could I do this most wicked thing, and sin before God?"' (Gen. 39.9)."