Genesis Chapter 40

• Genesis 40:1
  Genesis.
• Genesis 40:2
  After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
• Genesis 40:3
  Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.
• Genesis 40:4
  He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
• Genesis 40:5
  The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
• Genesis 40:6
  They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of th...
• Genesis 40:7
  Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.
• Genesis 40:8
  He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
• Genesis 40:9
  They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Plea...
• Genesis 40:10
  The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
• Genesis 40:11
  and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
• Genesis 40:12
  Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
• Genesis 40:13
  Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
• Genesis 40:14
  Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did whe...
• Genesis 40:15
  But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
• Genesis 40:16
  For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
• Genesis 40:17
  When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were o...
• Genesis 40:18
  In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
• Genesis 40:19
  Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
• Genesis 40:20
  Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
• Genesis 40:21
  On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head o...
• Genesis 40:22
  He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
• Genesis 40:23
  but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
• Genesis 40:24
  Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.