Genesis 40:2-12 Modern English Version (MEV)

2. Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers.

3. So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

4. The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he attended to them.They continued to be in confinement for some time.

5. Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation.

6. Joseph came in to them in the morning and looked at them and realized they were sad.

7. So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in the care of his lord’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

8. And they said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it.”Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.”

9. The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream, a vine was in front of me.

10. And in the vine there were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms shot forth and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.

11. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”

12. Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three days.

Genesis 40