1 N hierdie dinge het die skinker van die koning van Egipte en die bakker hulle misgaan jeens hulle heer, die koning van Egipte,

2 sodat Farao baie kwaad geword het vir sy twee hofdienaars, die voorman van die skinkers en die voorman van die bakkers.

3 En hy het hulle in bewaring gegee in die huis van die owerste van die lyfwag, in die gevangenis, die plek waar Josef gevange was.

4 En die owerste van die lyfwag het Josef by hulle aangestel om hulle te bedien. En hulle was 'n tyd lank in bewaring.

5 En hulle het altwee 'n droom gehad, elkeen sy droom, in dieselfde nag, elkeen 'n droom met besondere betekenis, die skinker en die bakker van die koning van Egipte, wat in die gevangenis gevange gesit het.

6 En Josef het die volgende môre by hulle gekom en gesien dat hulle ontstemd was.

7 Toe vra hy die hofdienaars van Farao wat by hom in bewaring was in die huis van sy heer, en sê: Waarom lyk julle aangesig vandag so droewig?

8 En hulle antwoord hom: Ons het 'n droom gehad, en daar is niemand wat dit kan uitlê nie. En Josef vra hulle: Is uitlegging nie 'n saak van God nie? Vertel my tog.

9 Toe vertel die voorman van die skinkers aan Josef sy droom en sê vir hom: In my droom was daar 'n wingerdstok voor my,

10 en aan die wingerdstok was drie ranke; en skaars het hy gebot of sy bloeisel was uit, sy trosse het ryp druiwe geword.

11 En die beker van Farao was in my hand. En ek het die druiwe geneem en dit in die beker van Farao uitgedruk en die beker in die hand van Farao gegee.

12 Toe sê Josef vir hom: Dit is die uitlegging daarvan: die drie ranke is drie dae.

13 Binne drie dae sal Farao jou hoof verhef -- jou in jou rang herstel; en jy sal die beker van Farao in sy hand gee net soos vroeër toe jy sy skinker was.

14 Hou my tog net in gedagte as dit met jou goed gaan, en bewys my tog 'n guns en maak melding van my by Farao en bring my uit hierdie huis uit;

15 want ek is gesteel, ja gesteel, uit die land van die Hebreërs, en ek het hier ook niks gedoen dat hulle my in die gevangenis gesit het nie.

16 Toe die voorman van die bakkers sien dat hy 'n gunstige uitlegging gegee het, sê hy aan Josef: Ook in my droom -- toe was daar drie mandjies met witbrood op my hoof,

17 en in die boonste mandjie was allerhande eetware vir Farao deur bakkers klaargemaak, en die voëls het dit uit die mandjie bo-op my hoof weggepik.

18 Toe antwoord Josef en sê: Dit is die uitlegging daarvan -- die drie mandjies is drie dae.

19 Binne drie dae sal Farao jou hoof bo-oor jou verhef -- hy sal jou aan 'n paal ophang, en die voëls sal jou vlees van jou af wegpik.

20 En op die derde dag, die verjaarsdag van Farao, het hy 'n maaltyd vir al sy dienaars berei en die hoof van die voorman van die skinkers en die hoof van die voorman van die bakkers te midde van sy dienaars verhef --

21 hy het die voorman van die skinkers herstel in sy skinkersamp, sodat hy die beker in die hand van Farao kon gee,

22 maar die voorman van die bakkers het hy opgehang soos Josef dit aan hulle uitgelê het.

23 En die voorman van die skinkers het nie aan Josef gedink nie, maar hom vergeet.

1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. 2 And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. 3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. 4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he ministered unto them: and they continued a season in ward. 5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in ward in his master’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sad to-day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.

9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 10 and in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and its blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: 11 and Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand. 12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days; 13 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thine office: and thou shalt give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. 14 But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: 15 for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head: 17 and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. 18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days; 19 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. 20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand: 22 but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. 23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.