Genesis 40

¹These things being so done, it chanced that two Eunuchs, the cup-bearer of the king of Ægypt, and his baker, offended against their lord.

²And Pharao being wrath against them (for the one was chief of the cup-bearers, the other chief baker)

³he sent them into the prison of the captain of the soldiers, in the which Joseph also was prisoner.

⁴But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, who also ministered to them: some little time was passed, and they were kept in custody.

⁵And they saw each of them both a dream in one night, according to an interpretation agreeing to themselves:

⁶to whom when Joseph was entered in the morning, and saw them sad,

⁷he asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than it was wont?

⁸Who answered: We have seen a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Why doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have seen.

⁹The chief of the cup-bearers first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,

¹⁰wherein were three branches, growing by little and little into buds, and after the blossoms, the grapes waxed ripe:

¹¹and the cup of Pharao in my hand: and I took the grapes, and wrung them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.

¹²Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches, are yet three days:

¹³after the which Pharao will remember thy service, & will restore thee to thy old degree: & thou shalt give him the cup according to thine office, as before thou hadst wont to do.

¹⁴Only remember me, when it shall be well with thee, and do me this mercy, to put Pharao in mind that he take me out of this prison:

¹⁵because I was taken away by stealth, out of the land of the Hebrews, and here an innocent was I cast into the lake.

¹⁶The master of the bakers seeing that he had wisely resolved the dream, he said: And I also saw a dream, that I had three baskets of meal upon my head:

¹⁷and that in one basket that was the higher, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds did eat out of it.

¹⁸Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days:

¹⁹after the which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on the cross, and the fowls shall tear thy flesh.

²⁰The third day after this was the birth-day of Pharao: who making a great feast to his servants, at the banquet he remembered the master of the cup-bearers, and the chief of the bakers.

²¹And he restored the one into his place, to reach him the cup,

²²the other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be approved.

²³And yet notwithstanding the chief of the cup-bearers, prosperous things succeeding, forgat his interpreter.