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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 40</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/40.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//genesis/40-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/genesis/">Genesis</a> > Genesis 40</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/39.htm" title="Genesis 39">◄</a> Genesis 40 <a href="../genesis/41.htm" title="Genesis 41">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/genesis/40.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/genesis/40.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/genesis/40.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/genesis/40.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/genesis/40.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/genesis/40.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/genesis/40.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Cupbearer and the Baker<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. <p class="reg"> After they had been in custody for some time, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” <p class="reg"> Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.” <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.” <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/40-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>and impale you on a pole</i><span class="thin"> </span>; similarly in verse 22<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Literally <i>had interpreted to them</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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