Chapter 40
Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1After these things the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
2Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
3and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.
4The captain of the guard assigned Joseph to them, and he attended them. They were in custody for some time.
5The two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream on the same night, each his own dream, and each dream with its own meaning.
6Joseph came to them in the morning and saw that they were troubled.
7He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces sad today?”
8They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Do interpretations not belong to God? Tell me, please.”
9The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph. He said, “In my dream there was a vine in front of me,
10and on the vine three branches. As it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters ripened into grapes.
11Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
12Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation. The three branches are three days.
13In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.
14But remember me when it goes well for you. Do me this loyalty, please, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
15For I was stolen, stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I have done nothing that they should have put me in the pit.”
16The chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, and he said to Joseph, “I too, in my dream: there were three baskets of chori on my head,
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Chori is not explained in the codex. White bread is a later guess, and it is not printed.
17and in the top basket all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
18Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
19In three days Pharaoh will lift your head off you and hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”
20On the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
21He restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
22But the chief baker he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23The chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph. He forgot him.