Bible. Books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments

20 And his lord took Joseph, and gave him up to the prison, where the king's prisoners are shut up. And he was there in prison.

21 And the Lord was with Joseph, and extended mercy to him, and granted him favor in the sight of the captain of the prison.

22 And the captain of the prison delivered into the hands of Joseph all the prisoners who were in prison, and in all that they did there he was the steward.

23 The captain of the prison did not look at anything that was in his hands, because the Lord was with Joseph, and in all that he did, the Lord gave success.

Chapter 40

1 And after these things the cupbearer of the king of Egypt, and the baker, did wrong to their lord king of Egypt.

2 And Pharaoh was angry with his two courtiers, with the chief cupbearer and with the chief baker,

3 And he gave them into custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in prison, in the place where Joseph was imprisoned.

4 And the captain of the guards assigned Joseph to them, and he ministered to them, and they remained in custody for some time.

5 And it came to pass that the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned, had dreams, to each his own dream, both in the same night, to each a dream of special significance.

6 And Joseph came to them in the morning, and saw them, and behold, they were troubled.

7 And he asked Pharaoh's courtiers, who were with him in his master's house under guard, saying, 'Why do you have sad faces this day?'

8 And they said unto him, 'We have dreamed; and there is no one to interpret them. Joseph said to them, "Is not the interpretation of God?" Tell me.

9 And the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream, and said to him, "I dreamed, behold, the vine is before me;