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| 1Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt. | 1Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker offended their royal master. |
| 2And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, | 2Pharaoh became angry with these two officials, |
| 3and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined. | 3and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard. |
| 4The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody. | 4They remained in prison for quite some time, and the captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them. |
| 5And one night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation. | 5While they were in prison, Pharaoh’s cup-bearer and baker each had a dream one night, and each dream had its own meaning. |
| 6When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled. | 6When Joseph saw them the next morning, he noticed that they both looked upset. |
| 7So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?” | 7“Why do you look so worried today?” he asked them. |
| 8They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.” | 8And 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.” |
| 9So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me, | 9So the chief cup-bearer told Joseph his dream first. “In my dream,” he said, “I saw a grapevine in front of me. |
| 10and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes. | 10The vine had three branches that began to bud and blossom, and soon it produced clusters of ripe grapes. |
| 11Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.” | 11I 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.” |
| 12Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. | 12“This is what the dream means,” Joseph said. “The three branches represent three days. |
| 13In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. | 13Within three days Pharaoh will lift you up and restore you to your position as his chief cup-bearer. |
| 14Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. | 14And 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. |
| 15For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.” | 15For 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.” |
| 16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, | 16When 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. |
| 17and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.” | 17The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.” |
| 18And Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days. | 18“This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days. |
| 19In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.” | 19Three 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.” |
| 20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. | 20Pharaoh’s birthday came three days later, and he prepared a banquet for all his officials and staff. He summoned his chief cup-bearer and chief baker to join the other officials. |
| 21He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand. | 21He then restored the chief cup-bearer to his former position, so he could again hand Pharaoh his cup. |
| 22But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. | 22But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had predicted when he interpreted his dream. |
| 23Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. | 23Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer, however, forgot all about Joseph, never giving him another thought. |
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