Genesis 40:1-11 ▼

1 And it chaunced after this that the chefe butlar of the kynge of Egipte and his chefe baker had offended there lorde the kynge of Egypte.

2 And Pharao was angrie with them and put the in warde in his chefe marshals house:

3 euen in ye preson where Ioseph was bownd.

4 And the chefe marshall gaue Ioseph a charge with them and he serued them. And they contynued a season in warde.

5 And they dreamed ether of them in one nyghte: both the butlar and the baker of the kynge of Egipte which were bownde in the preson house ether of them his dreame and eche manes dreame of a sondrie interpretation

6 When Ioseph came in vnto them in the mornynge and loked apon them: beholde they were sadd.

7 And he asked them saynge wherfore loke ye so sadly to daye?

8 They answered him we haue dreamed a dreame and haue no man to declare it. And Ioseph sayde vnto the. Interpretynge belongeth to God but tel me yet.

9 And the chefe butlar tolde his dreame to Ioseph and sayde vnto him. In my dreame me thought there stode a vyne before me

10 and in the vyne were .iij. braunches and it was as though it budded and her blossos shottforth: and ye grapes there of waxed rype.

11 And I had Pharaos cuppe in my hande and toke of the grapes and wronge them in to Pharaos cuppe and delyvered Pharaos cuppe into his hande.