⁹So the chief wine taster told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me. ¹⁰There were three branches on the vine. As soon as it budded, it flowered. And bunches of ripe grapes grew on it.

¹¹“Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand. I took the grapes. I squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup. Then I put the cup in his hand.”

¹²“Here’s what your dream means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days. ¹³In three days Pharaoh will let you out of prison. He’ll give your position back to you. And you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand. That’s what you used to do when you were his wine taster.

¹⁴“But when everything is going well with you, remember me. Do me a favor. Speak to Pharaoh about me. Get me out of this prison. ¹⁵I was taken away from the land of the Hebrews by force. Even here I haven’t done anything to be put in prison for.”

¹⁶The chief baker saw that Joseph had given a positive meaning to the wine taster’s dream. So he said to Joseph, “I had a dream too. There were three baskets of bread on my head. ¹⁷All kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh were in the top basket. But the birds were eating them out of the basket that was on my head.”

¹⁸“Here’s what your dream means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days. ¹⁹In three days Pharaoh will cut your head off. Then he will stick a pole through your body and set the pole up. The birds will eat up your body.”

²⁰The third day was Pharaoh’s birthday. He had a big dinner prepared for all of his officials. He brought the chief wine taster and the chief baker out of prison. He did it in front of his officials. ²¹He gave the chief wine taster’s position back to him. Once again the wine taster put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.

²²But Pharaoh had a pole stuck through the chief baker’s body. Then he had the pole set up.

Everything happened exactly as Joseph had told them when he explained their dreams.

²³But the chief wine taster didn’t remember Joseph. In fact, he forgot all about him.

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