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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../topmenuchap/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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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 class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Joseph Tells the Meaning of the Prisoners' Dreams</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.1-Gen.40.3" class="v0_40_1">1-3</span>While Joseph was in prison, both the king's<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.40.1-Gen.40.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> personal servant<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.40.1-Gen.40.3!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and his chief cook made the king angry. So he had them thrown into the same prison with Joseph. </span><span class="v0_40_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.4" class="v0_40_4">4</span>They spent a long time in prison, and the official in charge of the palace guard,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.40.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> made Joseph their servant.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.5" class="v0_40_5">5</span>One night each of the two men had a dream, but their dreams had different meanings. </span><span class="v0_40_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.6" class="v0_40_6">6</span>The next morning, when Joseph went to see the men, he could tell they were upset, </span><span class="v0_40_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.7" class="v0_40_7">7</span>and he asked, “Why are you so worried today?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.8" class="v0_40_8">8</span>“We each had a dream last night,” they answered, “and there is no one to tell us what they mean.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_8">Joseph replied, “Doesn't God know the meaning of dreams? Now tell me what you dreamed.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.9" class="v0_40_9">9</span>The king's personal servant told Joseph, “In my dream I saw a vine </span><span class="v0_40_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.10" class="v0_40_10">10</span>with three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its grapes became ripe. </span><span class="v0_40_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.11" class="v0_40_11">11</span>I held the king's cup and squeezed the grapes into it, then I gave the cup to the king.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.12" class="v0_40_12">12</span>Joseph said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_40_12">This is the meaning of your dream. The three branches stand for three days, </span><span class="v0_40_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.13" class="v0_40_13">13</span>and in three days the king will pardon you. He will make you his personal servant again, and you will serve him his wine, just as you used to do. </span><span class="v0_40_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.14" class="v0_40_14">14</span>But when these good things happen, please don't forget to tell the king about me, so I can get out of this place. </span><span class="v0_40_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.15" class="v0_40_15">15</span>I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here in Egypt I haven't done anything to deserve being thrown in jail.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.16" class="v0_40_16">16</span>When the chief cook saw that Joseph had given a good meaning to the dream, he told Joseph, “I also had a dream. In it I was carrying three breadbaskets stacked on top of my head. </span><span class="v0_40_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.17" class="v0_40_17">17</span>The top basket was full of all kinds of baked things for the king, but birds were eating them.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.18" class="v0_40_18">18</span>Joseph said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_40_18">This is the meaning of your dream. The three baskets are three days, </span><span class="v0_40_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.19" class="v0_40_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.40.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and in three days the king will cut off your head. He will hang your body on a pole, and birds will come and peck at it.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.20" class="v0_40_20">20</span>Three days later, while the king was celebrating his birthday with a dinner for his officials, he sent for his personal servant and the chief cook. </span><span class="v0_40_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.21" class="v0_40_21">21</span>He put the personal servant back in his old job </span><span class="v0_40_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.22" class="v0_40_22">22</span>and had the cook put to death.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_40_22">Everything happened just as Joseph had said it would, </span><span class="v0_40_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.40.23" class="v0_40_23">23</span>but the king's personal servant completely forgot about Joseph.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">40.1-3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the king's: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 12.15.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">40.1-3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">personal servant: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “cup bearer,” an important and trusted official in the royal court, who personally served wine to the king.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">40.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the palace guard: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Possibly Potiphar (see 39.1).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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