1 Depois destas coisas o copeiro do rei do Egito e o seu padeiro ofenderam ao seu senhor, o rei do Egito.2 Indignou-se Faraó contra os seus dois oficiais, contra o padeiro-mor e contra o copeiro-mor.3 Mandou detê-los na casa do capitão da guarda, no cárcere, no lugar onde José estava preso.4 O capitão da guarda deu a José o cargo deles; e estiveram por algum tempo em detenção.5 Tiveram ambos um sonho, cada qual o seu sonho numa só noite, cada qual segundo a interpretação do seu sonho, o copeiro e o padeiro do rei do Egito, que se achavam presos na casa do cárcere.6 Pela manhã entrou José a eles, e os viu, e eis que estavam turbados.7 Perguntou, pois, aos oficiais de Faraó, que com ele estavam detidos na casa do seu senhor: Por que estão hoje tão tristes os vossos semblantes?8 Responderam-lhe: Tivemos um sonho e não há quem o possa interpretar. Disse-lhes José: Porventura não pertencem a Deus as interpretações? contai-mo.9 O copeiro-mor contou o seu sonho a José, e lhe disse: Eis que em meu sonho havia uma vide diante de mim,10 e na vide três varas. Ao brotar a vide, saíram as suas flores e produziram os seus cachos uvas maduras.11 O copo de Faraó estava na minha mão; e, tomando as uvas, espremi-as no copo de Faraó e entreguei-o a Faraó.12 Respondeu José: Esta é a interpretação do sonho: as três varas são três dias;13 dentro ainda de três dias levantará Faraó a tua cabeça e te restituirá ao teu cargo; darás o copo de Faraó na sua mão conforme o costume antigo quando eras o seu copeiro.14 Porém lembra-te de mim, quando te for bem, e usa para comigo de compaixão, faze menção de mim a Faraó, e tira-me desta casa.15 Pois, na verdade, fui roubado da terra dos hebreus; e também aqui nada tenho feito para que me pusessem na masmorra.16 Vendo o padeiro-mor que a interpretação era boa, disse a José: Eu também sonhei, e eis que três cestos de pão branco estavam sobre a minha cabeça.17 No cesto mais alto havia para Faraó manjares de todas as qualidades que fazem os padeiros; as aves comiam-nos do cesto que estava sobre a minha cabeça.18 Respondeu-lhe José: Esta é a interpretação do sonho: os três cestos são três dias;19 dentro ainda de três dias te tirará Faraó a cabeça e te suspenderá num madeiro; e as aves te comerão as carnes.20 ao terceiro dia, que era o dia natalício de Faraó, deu este um banquete a todos os seus servos. Levantou a cabeça do copeiro-mor, e a cabeça do padeiro-mor no meio de seus servos.21 Restituiu ao copeiro-mor o seu cargo de copeiro, para que entregasse o copo a Faraó,22 mas enforcou ao padeiro-mor: como José lhes havia interpretado.23 Contudo o copeiro-mor não se lembrou de José, porém dele se esqueceu.

1 The king’s chief cupbearer and his chief baker made the king angry.2 Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.3 So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard. It was the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph. He took care of them. After they had been confined for some time,5 both prisoners, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, had dreams one night. Each man had a dream with its own special meaning.6 Joseph saw that they were upset when he came to them in the morning.7 He asked these officials of Pharaoh who were with him in his master’s prison: »Why do you look so unhappy today?«8 »We both had dreams,« they answered him, »but there is no one to tell us what they mean.« »Is it not God who can tell what dreams mean?« Joseph asked them. »Tell me all about them.«9 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said: »In my dream a grapevine with three branches appeared in front of me.10 »Soon after it sprouted it blossomed. Then its clusters ripened into grapes.11 »Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand. I took the grapes and squeezed them into it. I put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.«12 »This is what it means,« Joseph said to him. »The three branches are three days.13 »In the next three days Pharaoh will release you and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.14 »Remember me when things go well for you. Please do me a favor. Mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.15 »I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. And here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.«16 When the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph: »I also saw in my dream three baskets of white bread on my head.17 »The top basket contained all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh. The birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.«18 Joseph answered: »This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.19 »In three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you. He will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.«20 It happened on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday that he made a feast for all his servants. He lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.22 He did indeed hang the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph. In fact he forgot him.