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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him. |
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