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And it came to pass after these things, [that] the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord the king of Egypt .
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And Pharaoh was wroth with his two chamberlains -- with the chief of the cup-bearers and with the chief of the bakers ;
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and he put them in custody into the house of the captain of the life-guard , into the tower-house , into the place where Joseph was imprisoned.
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And the captain of the life-guard appointed Joseph to them, that he should attend on them. And they were [several] days in custody.
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And they dreamed a dream , both of them in one night , each his dream , each according to the interpretation of his dream , the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt , who were imprisoned in the tower-house .
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And Joseph came in to them in the morning , and looked on them, and behold, they were sad.
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And he asked Pharaoh's chamberlains that were with him in custody in his lord 's house , saying, Why are your faces [so] sad to-day ?
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And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream , and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God ? tell me [your dreams ], I pray you.
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Then the chief of the cup-bearers told his dream to Joseph , and said to him, In my dream , behold, a vine was before me;
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and in the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded: its blossoms shot forth, its clusters ripened into grapes.
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And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand ; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand .
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And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days .
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In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head and restore thee to thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand , after the former manner when thou wast his cup-bearer.
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Only bear a remembrance with thee of me when it goes well with thee, and deal kindly, I pray thee, with me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh , and bring me out of this house ;
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for indeed I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews , and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
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And when the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good , he said to Joseph , I also was in my dream , and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head .
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And in the uppermost basket there were all manner of victuals for Pharaoh that the baker makes, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head .
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And Joseph answered and said , This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets are three days .
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In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee on a tree ; and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee.
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And it came to pass the third day -- Pharaoh's birthday -- that he made a feast to all his bondmen. And he lifted up the head of the chief of the cup-bearers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his bondmen.
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And he restored the chief of the cup-bearers to his office of cup-bearer again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
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And he hanged the chief of the bakers , as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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But the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph , and forgot him.