1. Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker offended their royal master.
2. Pharaoh became angry with these two officials,
3. and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.
4. They remained in prison for quite some time, and the captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them.
5. While they were in prison, Pharaoh’s cup-bearer and baker each had a dream one night, and each dream had its own meaning.
6. When Joseph saw them the next morning, he noticed that they both looked upset.
7. “Why do you look so worried today?” he asked them.
8. And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean.”“Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied. “Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”
9. So the chief cup-bearer told Joseph his dream first. “In my dream,” he said, “I saw a grapevine in front of me.
10. The vine had three branches that began to bud and blossom, and soon it produced clusters of ripe grapes.
11. I was holding Pharaoh’s wine cup in my hand, so I took a cluster of grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”
12. “This is what the dream means,” Joseph said. “The three branches represent three days.