{
  "chapterNum": 40,
  "verses": [
    {
      "verseNum": 1,
      "text": "Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 2,
      "text": "Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 3,
      "text": "and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 4,
      "text": "The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant.\n    \nAfter they had been in custody for some time,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 5,
      "text": "both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 6,
      "text": "When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 7,
      "text": "So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 8,
      "text": "“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.”\n    \nThen Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 9,
      "text": "So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 10,
      "text": "and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 11,
      "text": "Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 12,
      "text": "Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 13,
      "text": "Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 14,
      "text": "But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 15,
      "text": "For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 16,
      "text": "When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 17,
      "text": "In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 18,
      "text": "Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 19,
      "text": "Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 20,
      "text": "On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 21,
      "text": "Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 22,
      "text": "But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 23,
      "text": "The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him."
    }
  ]
}