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15 For I was kidnapped from my homeland among the Hebrews, and now this—here I am in jail when I did nothing to deserve it.”

16 When the chief baker saw that the first dream had such a good meaning, he told his dream to Joseph, too.

“In my dream,” he said, “there were three baskets of pastries on my head. 17 In the top basket were all kinds of bakery goods for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them.”

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15 I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews,(A) and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.”(B)

16 When the chief baker(C) saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation,(D) he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets(E) of bread.[a] 17 In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 40:16 Or three wicker baskets