71 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown
71 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown
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## Joseph Interprets the Officials' Dreams
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###### 1
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Now it happened that after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
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###### 2
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And Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
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###### 3
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So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the _same_ place where Joseph was imprisoned.
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###### 4
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And the captain of the bodyguard appointed Joseph as overseer over them, and he attended to them; and they were in confinement for some time.
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###### 5
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Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail, both had a dream the same night, each man with his _own_ dream _and_ each dream with its _own_ interpretation.
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###### 6
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Now Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, and behold, they were dejected.
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###### 7
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So he asked Pharaoh's officials who were with him in confinement in his master's house, saying, "Why are your faces so sad today?"
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###### 8
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Then they said to him, "We have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Recount _it_ to me, please."
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###### 9
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So the chief cupbearer recounted his dream to Joseph and said to him, "In my dream, behold, _there was_ a vine in front of me;
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###### 10
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and on the vine _were_ three branches. And as it was budding, its blossoms came out, _and_ its clusters produced ripe grapes.
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###### 11
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Now Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; so I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I put the cup into Pharaoh's hand."
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###### 12
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Then Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;
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###### 13
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within three more days Pharaoh will lift 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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###### 14
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Only remember me when it goes well with you, and please show me lovingkindness by remembering me to Pharaoh and getting me out of this house.
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For I was in fact stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the pit."
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###### 16
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And the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, so he said to Joseph, "I also _saw_ in my dream, and behold, _there were_ three baskets of white bread on my head;
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###### 17
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and in the top basket _there were_ some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."
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###### 18
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Then Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;
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###### 19
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within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head off of you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off of you."
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###### 20
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Thus it happened on the third day, _which was_ Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
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###### 21
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And he restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand;
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###### 22
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but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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###### 23
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Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
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