Genesis 40:13

after which Pharaoh will remember your service, and he will restore you to your former position. And you will give him the cup according to your office, as you were accustomed to do before.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three shoots are the next three days,

14Only remember me, when it will be well with you, and do me this mercy, to suggest to Pharaoh to lead me out of this prison.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:19after which Pharaoh will carry away your head, and also suspend you from a cross, and the birds will tear your flesh.”

Psalms 3:3Many say to my soul, “There is no salvation for him in his God.” Pause

Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20

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. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And 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? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →

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