1Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.2Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,3and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.4The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,5each of the two men – the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison – had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.6When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.7So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, ‘Why do you look so sad today?’8‘We both had dreams,’ they answered, ‘but there is no-one to interpret them.’ Then Joseph said to them, ‘Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.’9So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, ‘In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,10and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes.11Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.’12‘This is what it means,’ Joseph said to him. ‘The three branches are three days.13Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.14But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.15I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.’16When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favourable interpretation, he said to Joseph, ‘I too had a dream: on my head were three baskets of bread.[1]17In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.’18‘This is what it means,’ Joseph said. ‘The three baskets are three days.19Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.’20Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:21he restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand –22but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.23The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
Genesis 40
کتاب مقدس، ترجمۀ معاصر
يوسف خواب زندانيان را تعبير میكند
1-3مدتی پس از زندانی شدن يوسف، فرعون رئيس نانوايان و رئيس ساقيان خود را به زندان انداخت، زيرا خشم او را برانگيخته بودند. آنها را به زندان فوطيفار، رئيس محافظان دربار كه يوسف در آنجا بود انداختند.4آنها مدت درازی در زندان ماندند و فوطيفار يوسف را به خدمت آنها گماشت.5يک شب هر دو آنها خواب ديدند.6صبح روز بعد، يوسف ديد كه آنها ناراحت هستند.7پس، از آنها پرسيد: «چرا امروز غمگين هستيد؟»8گفتند: «ديشب ما هر دو خواب ديديم و كسی نيست كه آن را تعبير كند.» يوسف گفت: «تعبير كردن خوابها كار خداست. به من بگوييد چه خوابهايی ديدهايد؟»9-10اول رئيس ساقيان خوابی را كه ديده بود، چنين تعريف كرد: «ديشب در خواب درخت انگوری را ديدم كه سه شاخه داشت. ناگاه شاخهها شكفتند و خوشههای زيادی انگور رسيده دادند.11من جام شراب فرعون را در دست داشتم، پس خوشههای انگور را چيده، در جام فشردم و به او دادم تا بنوشد.»12يوسف گفت: «تعبير خواب تو اين است: منظور از سه شاخه، سه روز است.13تا سه روز ديگر فرعون تو را از زندان آزاد كرده، دوباره ساقی خود خواهد ساخت.14پس خواهش میكنم وقتی دوباره مورد لطف او قرار گرفتی، مرا به ياد آور و سرگذشتم را برای فرعون شرح بده و از او خواهش كن تا مرا از اين زندان آزاد كند.15زيرا مرا كه عبرانی هستم از وطنم دزديده، به اينجا آوردهاند. حالا هم بدون آنكه مرتكب جرمی شده باشم، مرا در زندان انداختهاند.»16وقتی رئيس نانوايان ديد كه تعبير خواب دوستش خير بود، او نيز خواب خود را برای يوسف بيان كرده، گفت: «در خواب ديدم كه سه سبد پر از نان روی سر خود دارم.17در سبد بالايی چندين نوع نان برای فرعون گذاشته بودم، اما پرندگان آمده آنها را خوردند.»18-19يوسف به او گفت: «مقصود از سه سبد، سه روز است. سه روز ديگر فرعون سرت را از تنت جدا كرده، بدنت را به دار میآويزد و پرندگان آمده گوشت بدنت را خواهند خورد.»20سه روز بعد، جشن تولد فرعون بود و به همين مناسبت ضيافتی برای مقامات مملكتی ترتيب داد. او فرستاد تا رئيس ساقيان و رئيس نانوايان را از زندان به حضورش آورند.21سپس رئيس ساقيان را به كار سابقش گمارد،22ولی رئيس نانوايان را به دار آويخت، همانطور كه يوسف گفته بود.23اما رئيس ساقيان يوسف را به ياد نياورد.