Genesis 41:9-13

41:9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures. ¹  41:10 Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker. 41:11 We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning. ²  41:12 Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant ³  of the captain of the guards, ⁴  was with us there. We told him our dreams, ⁵  and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us. ⁶  41:13 It happened just as he had said ⁷  to us – Pharaoh ⁸  restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.” ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “sins, offenses.” He probably refers here to the offenses that landed him in prison (see 40:1).

² tn Heb “and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we dreamed.”

³ tn Or “slave.”

⁴ tn Heb “a servant to the captain of the guards.” On this construction see GKC 419-20 §129.c.

⁵ tn The words “our dreams” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “and he interpreted for us our dreams, each according to his dream he interpreted.”

⁷ tn Heb “interpreted.”

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Pharaoh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the baker) has been specified in the translation for clarity.