Genesis 40 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And after these events it came to be that the cupbearer and the baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim sinned against their master, the sovereign of Mitsrayim.

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

³ So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Yosĕ

⁴ And the captain of the guard put Yosĕ

⁵ Then the cupbearer and the baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, both of them, each man’s dream in one night and each man’s dream with its own interpretation.

⁶ And Yosĕ

⁷ And he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in confinement of his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

⁸ And they said to him, “We each have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it.” And Yosĕ

⁹ So the chief cupbearer related his dream to Yosĕ

¹⁰ and in the vine were three branches, and it was as though it budded – its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.

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

¹² And Yosĕ

¹³ “Yet, within three days Pharaoh is going to lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you shall put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand according to the former ruling, when you were his cupbearer.

¹⁴ “But remember me when it is well with you, and please show kindness to me. And mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house.

¹⁵ “For truly I was stolen away from the land of the Heḇ

¹⁶ And the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, and he said to Yosĕ

¹⁷ and in the uppermost basket all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”

¹⁸ And Yosĕ

¹⁹ “Yet, within three days Pharaoh is going to lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree. And the birds shall eat your flesh from you.”

²⁰ And on the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, it came to be that he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and of the chief baker among his servants,

²¹ and he restored the chief cupbearer to his post of cupbearer again, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand,

²² but he hanged the chief baker, as Yosĕ

²³ And the chief cupbearer did not remember Yosĕ