Douay Rheims Original ↷
Genesis 40 📜 📕 ↷
Cupbearer and the Baker
1 THESE things being so done, it chanced that two Eunuchs, the cup-bearer of the King of AEgypt, and his baker, offended against their lord.📜💬📚
2 And Pharao being wrath against them (for the one was chief of the cup-bearers, the other chief baker)📜💬📚
3 he sent them into the prison of the captain of the soldiers, in the which Joseph also was prisoner.📜💬📚
4 But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, who also ministered to them: some little time was passed, and they were kept in custody.📜💬📚
5 And they saw each of them both a dream in one night, according to an interpretation agreeing to themselves:📜💬📚
6 to whom when Joseph was entered in the morning, and saw them sad,📜💬📚
7 he asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder to day than it was wont?📜💬📚
8 Who answered: We have seen a dream, and there is no body to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Why doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have seen.📜💬📚
9 The chief of the cup-bearers first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,📜💬📚
10 wherein were three branches, growing by little and little into buds, and after the blossoms, the grapes waxed ripe:📜💬📚
11 and the cup of Pharao in my hand: and I took the grapes, and wrung them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.📜💬📚
12 Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches, are yet three days:📜💬📚
13 after the which Pharao will remember thy service, & will restore thee to thy old degree: & thou shalt give him the cup according to thine office, as before thou hadst wont to do.📜💬📚
14 Only remember me, when it shall be well with thee, and do me this mercy, to put Pharao in mind that he take me out of this prison:📜💬📚
15 because I was taken away by stealth, out of the land of the Hebrews, and here an innocent was I cast into the lake.📜💬📚
16 The master of the bakers seeing that he had wisely resolved the dream, he said: And I also saw a dream, that I had three baskets of meal upon my head:📜💬📚
17 and that in one basket that was the higher, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds did eat out of it.📜💬📚
18 Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days:📜💬📚
19 after the which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on the cross, and the fowls shall tear thy flesh.📜💬📚
20 The third day after this was the birth-day of Pharao: who making a great feast to his servants, at the banquet he remembered the master of the cup-bearers, and the chief of the bakers.📜💬📚
21 And he restored the one into his place, to reach him the cup,📜💬📚
22 the other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be approved.📜💬📚
23 And yet notwithstanding the chief of the cup-bearers, prosperous things succeeding, forgat his interpreter.📜💬📚
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