Genesis 41:12

World English Bible (2000)

There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

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  • Gen 37:36 : 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
  • Gen 40:12-19 : 12 Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. 13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer. 14 But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon." 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. 17 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head." 18 Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days. 19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
  • Gen 39:1 : 1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
  • Gen 39:20 : 20 Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

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  • Gen 41:10-11
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    10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

    11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

  • 13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

  • Gen 40:4-5
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    4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

    5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

  • Gen 40:7-9
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    7 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

    8 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

    9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

  • 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

  • 6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

  • 36 This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.

  • 7 They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

  • Gen 37:19-20
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    19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

    20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • 8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

  • 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

  • Gen 37:9-10
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    9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."

    10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

  • 12 Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

  • 9 But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.

  • 25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

  • 1 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

  • 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

  • 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

  • 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

  • 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.