Genesis Chapter 40 (NASB)
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Then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
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Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
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So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the [same] place where Joseph was imprisoned.
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The captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them, and he took care of them; and they were in confinement for some time.
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Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail, both had a dream the same night, each man with his [own] dream [and] each dream with its [own] interpretation.
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When Joseph came to them in the morning and observed them, behold, they were dejected.
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He asked Pharaoh's officials who were with him in confinement in his master's house, 'Why are your faces so sad today?'
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Then they said to him, 'We have had a dream and there is no one to interpret it.' Then Joseph said to them, 'Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell [it] to me, please.'
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So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, 'In my dream, behold, [there was] a vine in front of me;
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and on the vine [were] three branches. And as it was budding, its blossoms came out, [and] its clusters produced ripe grapes.
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'Now Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; so I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I put the cup into Pharaoh's hand.'
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Then Joseph said to him, 'This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;
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within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.
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'Only keep me in mind when it goes well with you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house.
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'For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.'
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When the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph, 'I also [saw] in my dream, and behold, [there were] three baskets of white bread on my head;
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and in the top basket [there were] some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.'
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Then Joseph answered and said, 'This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;
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within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.'
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Thus it came about on the third day, [which was] Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
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He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand;
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but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
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