Genesis 40:13

Translations

Modern

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

Traditional

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Literal

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put the cup of Pharaoh into his hand according to the former manner, when you were his cupbearer.

Latin

…post quos recordabitur Pharao ministerii tui, et restituet te in gradum pristinum: dabisque ei calicem juxta officium tuum, sicut ante facere consueveras.

Original

Hebrew

English

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

Notes

Genesis 40:9–19

Joseph listened to the dreams and gave their interpretations. These dreams were not trivial. They were serious warnings from God about what everyone would soon face. These two dreams also prepare for Pharaoh’s two dreams, which reveal the coming seasons of life and death that the nation would soon experience.

Genesis 40:1–23

Joseph did not lose faith in God’s promises, as evidenced by his readiness to interpret the dreams of two prisoners. He was still convinced that God’s revelation in his own two dreams (37:5–11) was true, and he had not abandoned hope that they would be fulfilled. When the fellow prisoners’ dreams were fulfilled exactly as Joseph said, this confirmed that his previous dreams were from God.

Theme notes and profiles

Egypt Joseph Symbolic Numbers Visions

Events

Joseph imprisonedc. 1718 BC

Related verses

2 Kings 25:27
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
Jeremiah 52:31
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
Psalm 3:3
But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
Genesis 40:19–22
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
Genesis 7:4
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

People

Pharaoh: Egyptian ruler during Joseph's time

Glossary

Baker Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Branch Butler Cup-Bearer Dreams Food and Food Preparation Genesis, Book of Jacob Joseph Patriarchs, Period of the Prophecy

Topics

Dream: Interpreted by Joseph Dream: The Dreams of the Butler and Baker Dreams: Mentioned in Scripture of Pharaoh's Butler and Baker Egypt: Israel in Joseph Interprets the Chief Baker's and the Chief Butler's Head: (Lifted Up) of Exaltation Joseph: Son of Jacob of the Two Prisoners

Genesis 40:13

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