⁸ “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.”^(A)

Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God?^(B) Tell me your dreams.”

⁹ So the chief cupbearer^(C) told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, ¹⁰ and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed,^(D) and its clusters ripened into grapes. ¹¹ Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.”

¹² “This is what it means,^(E)” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.^{(F) 13} Within three days^(G) Pharaoh will lift up your head^(H) and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.^{(I) 14} But when all goes well with you, remember me^(J) and show me kindness;^(K) mention me to Pharaoh^(L) and get me out of this prison. ¹⁵ I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews,^(M) and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.”^(N)

²⁰ Now the third day^(A) was Pharaoh’s birthday,^(B) and he gave a feast for all his officials.^(C) He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker^(D) in the presence of his officials: ²¹ He restored the chief cupbearer^(E) to his position,^(F) so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand^(G)— ²² but he impaled the chief baker,^(H) just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.^(I)

²³ The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.^(J)