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Genesis 40:1-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.

2. And Pharao being angry with them (now the one was chief butler, the other chief baker)

3. He sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers, in which Joseph also was prisoner,

4. But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.

5. And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves:

6. And when Joseph was come in to them in the morning, and saw them sad,

7. He asked them, saying: Why is your oountenance sadder to day than usual?

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

9. The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,

10. On which were three branches, which by little and little sent out buds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes:

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

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

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