The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. XL.

8 The interpretation of dreames is of God. 12. 19 Ioséph expoundeth the dreames of the two prisoners. 23 The in gratitude of the butler.

1 ANd after these things, the butler of the King of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

2 And Pharaóh was angry against his two“ 1.1 of∣ficers, against the chief butler, and against the chief baker.

3 Therefore he put them in warde in his chief stuardes house, in the prison (and) place whe rea 1.2 Ioséph was bounde.

4 And the chief stuarde gaue Ioséph charge ouer them, and he serued them: and they con tinued a season in warde:

5 ¶ And they bothe dreamed a dreame, ether of them his dreame in one night,b 1.3 eche one according to the interpretatio of his dreame (bothe) the butler & the baker of the King of Egypt, which were bounde in the prison.

6 And when Ioséph came in vnto them in the morning, and loked vpon them, he holde, they were sad.

7 And he asked Pharaohs officers, that were with him in his masters warde, saying, Whe∣refore” 1.4 loke ye so sadly to day?

8 Who answered him, We haue dreamed, (eche one) a dreame, & there is none to inter pret the same, Thē Ioséph said vnto thē,c 1.5 Are not interpretations of God? tel thē me now.

9 So the chief butler tolde his dreame to Io∣séph, ād said vnto him, In my dreame, behol∣de, a vine (was) before me,

10 And in the vine (were) thre branches, and as it budded, her floure came forthe: and the clusters of grapes waxed ripe.

11 And (I had) Pharaohs cup in mine hand, and I toke the grapes, and wrong them into Pha raohs cup, and I gaue the cup into Pharaohs hand.

12 Then Ioséph said vnto him, Thisd 1.6 is the in∣terpretation of it: The thre branche are thre dayes.

13 Within thre dayes shal Pharaóh lift vp thine head, and restore thee vnto thine” 1.7 office, and thou shalt giue Pharaohs cup into his hand after the olde maner, when thou wast his butler.

14 But haue me in remembrance with thee, when thou art in good case, and she we mer∣cie, I pray thee, vnto me, ande 1.8 make mencion of me to Pharaóh, that thou maiest bring me out of this house.

15 For I was stollen away by theft out of the

land of the Ebrewes, and here also haue I done nothing, wherefore they shulde put me“ 1.9 in the dungeon.

16 And when the chief baker sawe that the in terpretacion was good, he said vnto Ioséph, Also me thoght in my dreame that I had thref 1.10 white baskets on mine head.

17 And in the vppermost basket there (was) of all maner baken meates for Pharaōh: and the birdes did eat them out of the basket vpon mine head.

18 Then Ioséph answered, ād saidg 1.11 This is the interpretacion thereof: The thre baskets are thre dayes.

19 Within thre daies shal Pharaóh take thine head from thee, and shal hang thee on a tre, and the birdes shal eat thy flesh frō of thee.

20 ¶ And so the third day, (which was) Pha∣raohsh 1.12 birthday, he made a feast vnto all his seruantes: and he lifted vp the head of the chief butler, and the head of the chief baker among his seruantes.

21 And he restored the chief butler vnto his butlership, who gaue the cup in to Pharaohs hand,

22 But he hanged the chief baker, as Ioséph had interpreted vnto them.

23 Yet the chief butler did not remembre Io∣séph, but forgat him.

Notes

• “ 1.1

  Or, Eunuches, the worde signi∣fieth them that were in high esla 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or, them that were gelded.
• a 1.2

  God worked many wonder∣ful meanes to de liuer his.
• b 1.3

  That is, euerie dreame had his interpretation, as the thing after ward declared.
• ” 1.4

  Ebr. why are your faces euil.
• c 1.5

  Can not God raise vp suche as shal interpret suche things?
• d 1.6

  He was assu∣red by the Spirit of God that his interpretation was true.
• ” 1.7

  Ebr. place.
• e 1.8

  He refused not the meanes to be deliuered, which he thoght God had appointed.
• “ 1.9

  Or, in the pit.
• f 1.10

  That is, made of white twigges or, as some read baskets ful of ho les.
• g 1.11

  He sheweth that the mini∣sters of God oght not to conceile that, which God reueileth vnto them.
• h 1.12

  Which was an occasion to appoint his offi∣cers and so to ex amine them that were in prison.