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to your position as his chief c up-bearer.
14 And please remember me and do me
a favor when things go well for you.
Mention me to Pharaoh, so he might
let me out of this place. 15 For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land
of the Hebrews, and now I’m here in
prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”
16 When the chief baker saw that Jo
seph had given the first dream such a
positive interpretation, he said to Jo
seph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream
there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head. 17 The top
basket contained all kinds of pastries
for Pharaoh, but the birds came and
ate them from the basket on my head.”
18 “This is what the dream means,”
Joseph told him. “The three baskets
also represent three days. 19 Three
days from now Pharaoh will lift you
up and impale your body on a pole.
Then birds will come and peck away
at your flesh.”
20 Pha
raoh’s birthday came three
days later, and he prepared a banquet
for all his officials and staff. He summoned* his chief cup-bearer and chief
baker to join the other officials. 21 He
then restored the chief c up-bearer to
his former position, so he could again
hand Pharaoh his cup. 22 But Pharaoh
impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph
had predicted when he interpreted his
dream. 23 Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer,
however, forgot all about Jo
seph,
never giving him another thought.
41:1 Two
full years later, Pha
r aoh
dreamed that he was standing on the
bank of the Nile River. 2 In his dream
he saw seven fat, healthy cows come
up out of the river and begin grazing in the marsh grass. 3 Then he saw
seven more cows come up behind
them from the Nile, but these were
scrawny and thin. These cows stood
beside the fat cows on the riverbank.
4 Then the scrawny, thin cows ate the
seven healthy, fat cows! At this point
in the dream, Pharaoh woke up.
5 But he fell asleep again and had a
second dream. This time he saw seven
heads of grain, plump and beautiful,
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growing on a single stalk. 6 Then seven
more heads of grain appeared, but
these were shriveled and withered by
the east wind. 7 And these thin heads
swallowed up the seven plump, well-
formed heads! Then Pharaoh woke up
again and realized it was a dream.
8 The next morning Pha
raoh was
very disturbed by the dreams. So he
called for all the magicians and wise
men of Egypt. When Pharaoh told
them his dreams, not one of them
could tell him what they meant.
9 Finally, the king’s chief c
up-
bearer spoke up. “Today I have been
reminded of my failure,” he told Pha
raoh. 10 “Some time ago, you were
angry with the chief baker and me,
and you imprisoned us in the palace
of the captain of the guard. 11 One
night the chief baker and I each had
a dream, and each dream had its own
meaning. 12 There was a young Hebrew
man with us in the prison who was a
slave of the captain of the guard. We
told him our dreams, and he told us
what each of our dreams meant. 13 And
everything happened just as he had
predicted. I was restored to my position as cup-bearer, and the chief baker
was executed and impaled on a pole.”
14 Pharaoh sent for Joseph at once,
and he was quickly brought from the
prison. After he shaved and changed
his clothes, he went in and stood before Pharaoh. 15 Then Pharaoh said to
Joseph, “I had a dream last night, and
no one here can tell me what it means.
But I have heard that when you hear
about a dream you can interpret it.”
16 “It is beyond my power to do this,”
Joseph replied. “But God can tell you
what it means and set you at ease.”
40:20 Hebrew He lifted up the head of.
MATTHEW 12:46–13:23
As Jesus was speaking to the crowd,
his mother and brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. 47 Someone told J esus, “Your mother and your
brothers are standing outside, and
they want to speak to you.”*
48 Jesus asked, “Who is my mother?
Who are my brothers?” 49 Then he
