Genesis 40:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

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  • Gen 40:13 : 13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
  • Neh 1:11-2:2 : 11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer. 1 ¶ And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was] before him: and I took up the wine, and gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence. 2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing [else] but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
  • Esth 6:1 : 1 ¶ On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
  • Gen 39:20-23 : 20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners [were] bound: and he was there in the prison. 21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it]. 23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing [that was] under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and [that] which he did, the LORD made [it] to prosper.

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  • Gen 40:2-7
    6 verses
    90%

    2And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

    3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound.

    4And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

    5¶ And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which [were] bound in the prison.

    6And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad.

    7And he asked Pharaoh's officers that [were] with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to day?

  • Gen 41:8-11
    4 verses
    85%

    8And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

    9¶ Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:

    10Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, [both] me and the chief baker:

    11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

  • Gen 40:20-23
    4 verses
    80%

    20¶ And it came to pass the third day, [which was] Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

    21And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:

    22But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

    23Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

  • Gen 40:13-17
    5 verses
    76%

    13Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

    14But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

    15For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

    16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets on my head:

    17And in the uppermost basket [there was] of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

  • Gen 41:1
    74%

    1¶ And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

  • Gen 40:9
    74%

    9And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine [was] before me;

  • Gen 39:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19¶ And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

    20And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners [were] bound: and he was there in the prison.

  • Exod 5:15
    72%

    15¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

  • Gen 39:22
    71%

    22And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it].

  • Gen 40:11
    71%

    11And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

  • Gen 39:1
    71%

    1¶ And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

  • Gen 41:13
    71%

    13And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

  • Gen 37:36
    71%

    36And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the guard.

  • Gen 41:37
    71%

    37And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.