## Joseph Interprets the Officials' Dreams ###### 1 Now it happened that after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt. ###### 2 And Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. ###### 3 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. ###### 4 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. ###### 5 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. ###### 6 Now Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, and behold, they were dejected. ###### 7 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?" ###### 8 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." ###### 9 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; ###### 10 and on the vine _were_ three branches. And as it was budding, its blossoms came out, _and_ its clusters produced ripe grapes. ###### 11 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." ###### 12 Then Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days; ###### 13 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. ###### 14 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. ###### 15 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." ###### 16 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; ###### 17 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." ###### 18 Then Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days; ###### 19 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." ###### 20 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. ###### 21 And he restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand; ###### 22 but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them. ###### 23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.