Chapter 40
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After these things, the king's cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt sinned against their lord, the king of Egypt.
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Pharaoh was angry with his two eunuchs, the chief of the cupbearers and the chief of the bakers.
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And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, toward the house of the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
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The chief of the butchers appointed Joseph over them, and he served them, and they were in custody for days.
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They each dreamed a dream, both of them, each man his dream in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison house.
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Joseph came to them in the morning, saw them, and there they were, sullen.
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He asked Pharaoh's eunuchs who were with him in the guard of the temple of his lord, saying, "Why are your faces sad today?"
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And they said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me."
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The chief cupbearer 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 there were three branches, and it budded, flowered, and ripened its clusters of grapes.
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Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
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Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days."
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand in the way you were serving it to him before.
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for if you remember me when it goes well with you and you please show steadfast love to me and remember me to Pharaoh and bring me out from this House of God
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for a stolen one stole me from the land of the Hebrews, and also here I did nothing at all, for they put me in the pit
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And the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, and he said to Joseph, "I also—in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread on my head."
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And in the upper basket there was all of Pharaoh's food, the work of a baker, and the birds ate them from the basket from above my head.
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And Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days."
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift your head from upon you and hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh from upon you.
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On the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted 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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He restored the chief of the cupbearers to his cupbearing and gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
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And he hanged the chief of the bakers, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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And the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph, and he forgot him.