Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Joseph Interprets the Prisoners' Dreams
1 Some time later the king of
Egypt's wine steward and his
chief baker offended the king.
2 He
was angry with these two officials
3 and put them in prison in the house
of the captain of the guard, in the
same place where Joseph was being
kept.
4 They spent a long time in
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prison, and the captain assigned
Joseph as their servant.
5 One night there in prison the
wine steward and the chief baker
each had a dream, and the dreams
had different meanings.
6 When
Joseph came to them in the morning,
he saw that they were upset.
7 He asked them, “Why do you look
so worried today?”
8 They answered, “Each of us had
a dream, and there is no one here to
explain what the dreams mean.”
8 “It is God who gives the ability to
interpret dreams,” Joseph said. “Tell
me your dreams.”
9 So the wine steward said, “In
my dream there was a grapevine in
front of me
10 with three branches on
it. As soon as the leaves came out,
the blossoms appeared, and the
grapes ripened.
11 I was holding the
king's cup; so I took the grapes and
squeezed them into the cup and
gave it to him.”
12 Joseph said, “This is what it
means: the three branches are three
days.
13 In three days the king will
release you, pardon you, and restore
you to your position. You will give
him his cup as you did before when
you were his wine steward.
14 But
please remember me when everything
is going well for you, and
please be kind enough to mention
me to the king and help me get out
of this prison.
15 After all, I was kidnapped
from the land of the Hebrews,
and even here in Egypt I
didn't do anything to deserve being
put in prison.”
16 When the chief baker saw that
the interpretation of the wine steward's
dream was favorable, he said
to Joseph, “I had a dream too; I was
carrying three breadbaskets on my
head.
17 In the top basket there were
all kinds of baked goods for the king,
and the birds were eating them.”
18 Joseph answered, “This is what
it means: the three baskets are three
days.
19 In three days the king will
release you—and have your head
cut off! Then he will hang your body
on a pole, and the birds will eat your
flesh.”
20 On his birthday three days later
the king gave a banquet for all his
officials; he released his wine steward
and his chief baker and brought
them before his officials.
21 He restored
the wine steward to his former
position,
22 but he executed the
chief baker. It all happened just as
Joseph had said.
23 But the wine
steward never gave Joseph another
thought—he forgot all about him.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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