Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker
offended their royal master.
Pharaoh became angry with these two officials, and he put
them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.
They remained in prison for quite some time, and the captain of the guard
assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them.
While they were in prison, Pharaoh’s cup-bearer and baker
each had a dream one night, and each dream had its own meaning. When Joseph saw
them the next morning, he noticed that they both looked upset. “Why do you look
so worried today?” he asked them.
And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but no
one can tell us what they mean.”
“Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied.
“Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”
So the chief cup-bearer told Joseph his dream first. “In
my dream,” he said, “I saw a grapevine in front of me. The vine had three
branches that began to bud and blossom, and soon it produced clusters of ripe
grapes. I was holding Pharaoh’s wine cup in my hand, so I took a cluster
of grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I placed the cup in
Pharaoh’s hand.”
“This is what the dream means,” Joseph said. “The three
branches represent three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift you up
and restore you to your position as his chief cup-bearer. And please remember
me and do me a favor when things go well for you. Mention me to Pharaoh, so he
might let me out of this place. For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land
of the Hebrews, and now I’m here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”
When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first
dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too.
In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head. The
top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and
ate them from the basket on my head.”
“This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The
three baskets also represent three days. Three days from now Pharaoh will lift
you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at
your flesh.”
Pharaoh’s birthday came three days later, and he prepared
a banquet for all his officials and staff. He summoned his chief cup-bearer and
chief baker to join the other officials. He then restored the chief cup-bearer
to his former position, so he could again hand Pharaoh his cup.
But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had
predicted when he interpreted his dream. Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer, however,
forgot all about Joseph, never giving him another thought.
Source : Genesis 40:1-23 [Holy Bible -NLT] taken from
https://www.biblegateway.com
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