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📚And it came about after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their master, the king of Egypt. 2 📚And Pharaoh was angry with these two officials of his, with the chief of the butlers and with the chief of the bakers. 3 📚And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined. 4 📚And the captain of the guard put them in Joseph’s charge and he served them. And they continued for a time in custody.40:4 God’s hand was in all this, working for Joseph’s eventual release from prison– Gen 41:9-14.⚜
5 📚And both of them had dreams 📖, each one dreamed in the same night, each man with a meaning in his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison.
6 📚And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and looked at them, and saw that they were sad. 7 📚And he asked these officials of Pharaoh who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why are you looking sad today?”
8 📚And they said to him, “We have had a dream, and there is no interpreter for it”. And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God 📖? Please tell me the dreams”.
9 📚And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream, see, a vine was before me, 10 and on the vine were three branches. And as it was budding, its blossoms came out, and its clusters produced ripe grapes. 11 📚And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand”.
12 📚And Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. 13 📚Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your place, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, just the way you did before when you were his butler. 14 📚But when it goes well with you, think about me and please show kindness to me, and mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house. 15 📚For in fact I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in the dungeon”.
16 📚When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “In my dream, see, I had three white baskets 📖 on my head. 17 📚And in the topmost basket there were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on 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 off your head from you, and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat your flesh off of you”.
20 📚And the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, it so happened that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. 21 📚And he restored the chief butler to his place as butler again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand. 22 📚But he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted for them.
23 📚Still the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him 📖.