mind this present incident when you are later with Pharaoh. Joseph then asks the officer to ‘mention’ Joseph to the King of Egypt: this is the same verb used earlier in the verse for ‘remember’. Here it is a Hiphil form that means ‘to cause to remember’ or ‘mention’. Joseph then pleads his innocence. First, he is a victim because he was stolen from his homeland. The ‘land of the Hebrews’ probably simply refers to the area in which his relatives are sojourning in Canaan.82 (For commentary on the epithet