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Genesis 40:1-10 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

1. And after these events it came to be that the cupbearer and the baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim sinned against their master, the sovereign of Mitsrayim.

2. And Pharaoh was wroth with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

3. So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Yosĕph was a prisoner.

4. And the captain of the guard put Yosĕph in charge of them, and he served them. So they were in confinement for some time.

5. Then the cupbearer and the baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, both of them, each man’s dream in one night and each man’s dream with its own interpretation.

6. And Yosĕph came in to them in the morning and looked at them and saw that they were sad.

7. And he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in confinement of his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

8. And they said to him, “We each have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it.” And Yosĕph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to Elohim? Relate them to me, please.”

9. So the chief cupbearer related his dream to Yosĕph, and said to him, “See, in my dream a vine was before me,

10. and in the vine were three branches, and it was as though it budded – its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.

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