9-13 The head cupbearer then spoke up and said to Pharaoh, “I just now remembered something—I’m sorry, I should have told you this long ago. Once when Pharaoh got angry with his servants, he locked me and the head baker in the house of the captain of the guard. We both had dreams on the same night, each dream with its own meaning. It so happened that there was a young Hebrew slave there with us; he belonged to the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us, each dream separately. Things turned out just as he interpreted. I was returned to my position and the head baker was impaled.”

14 Pharaoh at once sent for Joseph. They brought him on the run from the jail cell. He cut his hair, put on clean clothes, and came to Pharaoh.

15 “I dreamed a dream,” Pharaoh told Joseph. “Nobody can interpret it. But I’ve heard that just by hearing a dream you can interpret it.”

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13 And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled.(A)

14 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon.(B) When he had shaved(C) and changed his clothes,(D) he came before Pharaoh.

15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it.(E) But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”(F)

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