Genesis 40:1-19 ▼

1 And it came to pass after these things that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the baker sinned against their lord, against the king of Egypt.

2 And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, with the chief of the cupbearers and the chief of the bakers.

3 And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guards, in the prison house, the place where Joseph was confined.

4 And the captain of the guards appointed Joseph to them, and he served them, and they were days in custody.

5 And they dreamed a dream, the two of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream—the cupbearer and the baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison. House

6 and Joseph came to them in the morning and he saw them, and behold, they were troubled.

7 And he asked the officers of Pharaoh who were with him in custody in the house of his lord, saying, “Why are your? faces evil today?”

8 And they said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them, please, to me.”

9 And the chief of the cupbearers told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream, and behold, a vine was before me.

10 And in the vine were three branches. And it was as though it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters ripened grapes.

11 And the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into the cup of Pharaoh, and I put the cup in the hand of Pharaoh.”

12 And Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: The three branches, they are three days.

13 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put the cup of Pharaoh into his hand according to the former manner, when you were his cupbearer.

14 But only that you remember me when it is well with you, and please, do kindness with me and make mention of me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house.

15 For I was surely stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and also here I have not done anything that they should put me in the pit.”

16 And the chief of the bakers saw that he interpreted well, and he said to Joseph, “I was also in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

17 And in the uppermost basket were all kinds of food, for Pharaoh, the work of a baker; and the birds were eating them out of the basket from upon my head.”

18 And Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from upon you and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat your flesh from upon you.”