Then the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, (A)had a dream, both of them, each man’s dream in one night and each man’s dream with its own interpretation. And Joseph came in to them in the morning and looked at them, and saw that they were [a]sad. So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in the custody of his lord’s house, saying, (B)“Why do you look so sad today?”

And they said to him, (C)“We each have had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.”

So Joseph said to them, (D)“Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 40:6 dejected

Pharaoh’s Dreams

41 Then it came to pass, at the end of two full years, that (A)Pharaoh had a dream; and behold, he stood by the river.

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Now it came to pass in the morning (A)that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all (B)the magicians of Egypt and all its (C)wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.

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15 (A)In a dream, in a vision of the night,
When deep sleep falls upon men,
While slumbering on their beds,
16 (B)Then He opens the ears of men,
And seals their instruction.
17 In order to turn man from his deed,
And conceal pride from man,

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And the king said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to [a]know the dream.”

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 2:3 Or understand

I saw a dream which made me afraid, (A)and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head (B)troubled me.

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