Genesis 40

¹Some time after this , the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt .

²And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers , the chief cupbearer and the chief baker ,

³and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard , in the prison where Joseph was confined .

⁴The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody .

⁵And one night they both dreamed —the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt , who were confined in the prison — each his own dream , and each dream with its own interpretation .

⁶When Joseph came to them in the morning , he saw that they were troubled .

⁷So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house , Why are your faces downcast today ?

⁸They said to him, We have had dreams , and there is no one to interpret them. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God ? Please tell them to me.

⁹So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, In my dream there was a vine before me ,

¹⁰and on the vine there were three branches . As soon as it budded , its blossoms shot forth , and the clusters ripened into grapes .

¹¹Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand , and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand .

¹²Then Joseph said to him, This is its interpretation : the three branches are three days .

¹³In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office , and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly , when you were his cupbearer .

¹⁴Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh , and so get me out of this house .

¹⁵For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews , and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit .

¹⁶When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable , he said to Joseph , I also had a dream : there were three cake baskets on my head ,

¹⁷and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh , but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head .

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

¹⁹In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head — from you!—and hang you on a tree . And the birds will eat the flesh from you.

²⁰On the third day , which was Pharaoh’s birthday , he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants .

²¹He restored the chief cupbearer to his position , and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand .

²²But he hanged the chief baker , as Joseph had interpreted to them.

²³Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph , but forgot him.