16. When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to him: “I too had a dream. In it I had three bread baskets on my head;
17. in the top one were all kinds of bakery products for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
18. Joseph said to him in reply: “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days;
19. within three days Pharaoh will single you out and will impale you on a stake, and the birds will be eating your flesh.”
20. And so on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, when he gave a banquet to all his servants, he singled out the chief cupbearer and chief baker in the midst of his servants.
21. He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, so that he again handed the cup to Pharaoh;
22. but the chief baker he impaled—just as Joseph had told them in his interpretation.
23. Yet the chief cupbearer did not think of Joseph; he forgot him.