Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said in the name of Rabbi Joḥanan that God intervened to cause Pharaoh to be angry with his servants, the chief cupbearer and the baker, in order to fulfill the fate of a righteous man, Joseph, in .Babylonian Talmud Megillah 13b, in, e.g., Talmud Bavli: Tractate Megillah, elucidated by Gedaliah Zlotowitz and Hersh Goldwurm, edited by Yisroel Simcha Schorr (Brooklyn: Mesorah Publications, 1991), volume 20, page 13b; see also Genesis Rabbah 88:3, in, e.g., Harry Freedman and Maurice Simon, translators, Midrash Rabbah: Genesis, volume 2, page 815.
