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¹After this, two men in the service of the king of Egypt, his cupbearer and his baker, did wrong against their master. ²Pharaoh’s anger was roused against these two officials of his, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. ³He placed them under guard at the house of the commander of the guard, in the very prison where Joseph was being held. ⁴The commander of the guard assigned Joseph to them, and he waited on them. They remained in custody for some time. ⁵Then, on the same night, both prisoners dreamed, the king of Egypt’s cupbearer and his baker. Each had his own dream, and each dream called for its own interpretation. ⁶Joseph came in to them the next morning and could see how troubled they looked. ⁷He questioned the two officials of Pharaoh who were confined with him in his master’s house: “Why are your faces so gloomy today?” ⁸“Each of us has had a dream,” they replied, “and we have no one to interpret them.” Joseph said, “Is it not God who gives interpretations? Please, tell me about them.” ⁹So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, saying, “There I was, dreaming, and before me stood a vine, ¹⁰with three branches on it. No sooner had it sprouted than it was in bloom, and its clusters were soon full of ripe grapes. ¹¹In my hand I had Pharaoh’s cup. I gathered the grapes, pressed them out into the cup, and set it in Pharaoh’s hand.” ¹²Joseph said to him, “Here is the interpretation: the three branches stand for three days. ¹³Three days from now Pharaoh will lift up your head and reinstate you, and you will hand Pharaoh his cup as in the old days, when you served as his cupbearer. ¹⁴And once things go well for you, keep me in mind. Please do me this kindness: speak of me to Pharaoh and have me brought out of this place. ¹⁵The truth is that I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. And here, too, I have done nothing wrong that should have landed me in this pit.” ¹⁶The chief baker, seeing that the interpretation was a good one, said to Joseph, “I also had a dream. I was carrying three baskets of white bread on my head. ¹⁷The top basket held every sort of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds kept pecking at it from the basket on my head.” ¹⁸Joseph replied, “Here is the interpretation: the three baskets stand for three days. ¹⁹Three days from now Pharaoh will lift up your head, right off your body, and hang you on a pole, and the birds will eat the flesh from your bones.” ²⁰The third day came, and it was Pharaoh’s birthday. He held a banquet for all his officials, and with them all present he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker. ²¹He reinstated the chief cupbearer in his office, and the cupbearer went back to placing the cup in Pharaoh’s hand. ²²The chief baker, though, he hanged, exactly as Joseph had explained to them. ²³But the chief cupbearer gave no thought to Joseph; he put him out of his mind.