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The Cupbearer and the Baker
And it came to pass after these things, [that] the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
And it came to pass after these things, [that] the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
Joseph Interprets Two Dreams
Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker offended their royal master.
Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker offended their royal master.
And Pharaoh was wroth with his two chamberlains -- with the chief of the cup-bearers and with the chief of the bakers;
Pharaoh became angry with these two officials,
and he put them in custody into the house of the captain of the life-guard, into the tower-house, into the place where Joseph was imprisoned.
and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.
And the captain of the life-guard appointed Joseph to them, that he should attend on them. And they were [several] days in custody.
They remained in prison for quite some time, and the captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them.
And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the tower-house.
While they were in prison, Pharaoh’s cup-bearer and baker each had a dream one night, and each dream had its own meaning.
And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and looked on them, and behold, they were sad.
When Joseph saw them the next morning, he noticed that they both looked upset.
And he asked Pharaoh's chamberlains that were with him in custody in his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces [so] sad to-day?
“Why do you look so worried today?” he asked them.
And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [your dreams], I pray you.
And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean.”
“Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied. “Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”
“Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied. “Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”
Then the chief of the cup-bearers told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
So the chief cup-bearer told Joseph his dream first. “In my dream,” he said, “I saw a grapevine in front of me.
and in the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded: its blossoms shot forth, its clusters ripened into grapes.
The vine had three branches that began to bud and blossom, and soon it produced clusters of ripe grapes.
And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
I was holding Pharaoh’s wine cup in my hand, so I took a cluster of grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”
And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days.
“This is what the dream means,” Joseph said. “The three branches represent three days.
In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head and restore thee to thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his cup-bearer.
Within three days Pharaoh will lift you up and restore you to your position as his chief cup-bearer.
Only bear a remembrance with thee of me when it goes well with thee, and deal kindly, I pray thee, with me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house;
And please remember me and do me a favor when things go well for you. Mention me to Pharaoh, so he might let me out of this place.
for indeed I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I’m here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”
And when the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.
And in the uppermost basket there were all manner of victuals for Pharaoh that the baker makes, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.
The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”
And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets are three days.
“This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.
In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee on a tree; and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee.
Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.”
And it came to pass the third day -- Pharaoh's birthday -- that he made a feast to all his bondmen. And he lifted up the head of the chief of the cup-bearers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his bondmen.
And he restored the chief of the cup-bearers to his office of cup-bearer again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
He then restored the chief cup-bearer to his former position, so he could again hand Pharaoh his cup.
And he hanged the chief of the bakers, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had predicted when he interpreted his dream.