The Cupbearer and the Baker
And it happened after these things that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt, and the baker, offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
And Pharaoh was furious with his two officers — with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers —
and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
And the captain of the guard assigned Joseph to them, and he served them; and they were in custody for some days.
And the two of them dreamed a dream — each his own dream in one night, each dream with its own meaning — the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
And Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them — and look, they were troubled.
And he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house: “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
And they said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, please.”
And the chief of the cupbearers recounted his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream — look, a vine before me,
and on the vine three branches; and as it budded, its blossom came up, and its clusters ripened into grapes.
And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I set the cup on Pharaoh’s palm.”
And Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches — they are three days.
In three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your post, and you will set Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, as was the former custom when you were his cupbearer.
Only remember me when it goes well with you, and do loyal love with me, please: mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
For I was surely stolen from the land of the Hebrews — and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in the pit.”
And the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, and he said to Joseph, “I also — in my dream, look, three baskets of white bread on my head,
and in the top basket every kind of food for Pharaoh, baker’s work — and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
And Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets — they are three days.
In three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head — off of you — and hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off of you.”
And it happened on the third day — Pharaoh’s birthday — that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.
And he restored the chief of the cupbearers to his cupbearing, and he set the cup on Pharaoh’s palm.
But the chief of the bakers he hanged — as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Yet the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph. He forgot him.