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And after these things, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
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And Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief of the cupbearers and the chief of the bakers.
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And he put them in custody at the house of the
acaptain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was
bconfined.
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And the captain of the guard put Joseph in charge of them, and he ministered to them; and they were in custody for some time.
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And the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, both of them had a dream, each man with his own dream in one night,
and each dream with its own interpretation.
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And Joseph came to them in the morning and looked at them, and they were troubled.
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And he asked Pharaoh’s officials, who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, Why are your faces so sad today?
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And they said to him, We have had a
adream, and there is no one to interpret it. And Joseph said to them,
1Do not interpretations belong to
bGod? Please tell
it to me.
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And the chief of the cupbearers told his dream to Joseph and said to him, In my dream there was a vine before me,
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And on the vine were three branches. And as soon as it budded, its blossoms came out,
and its clusters ripened into grapes.
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And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.
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And Joseph said to him, This is its
ainterpretation: The three branches are three days.
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Within three more days Pharaoh will
alift 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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But remember my being with you when it is well with you, and please do me a kindness and make mention of me to Pharaoh and
so have me brought out of this house.
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For I was actually
akidnapped out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have not done anything that they should put me into the
bdungeon.
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Now when the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also
saw this in my dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
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And in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.
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And Joseph answered and said, This is its
ainterpretation: The three baskets are
bthree days.
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Within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will
ahang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh from you.
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And on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants; and he
alifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.
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And he
arestored the chief of the cupbearers to his cupbearing, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
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But the chief of the bakers he
ahanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Yet the chief of the cupbearers did not
aremember Joseph, but forgot him.
