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# Genesis 40

Genesis 40 is chapter 40 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Joseph interpreteth the dreams of two of Pharao's servants in prison: the event declareth the interpretations to be true, but Joseph is forgotten.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 40 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. While these things were going on, it happened that two eunuchs, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt, and the miller of grain, offended their lord.
2. And Pharaoh, being angry with them, (now the one was in charge of the cupbearers, the other of the millers of grain)
3. sent them to the prison of the leader of the military, in which Joseph also was a prisoner.
4. But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, who ministered to them also. Some little time passed by, while they were held in custody.
5. And they both saw a similar dream on one night, whose interpretations should be related to one another.
6. And when Joseph had entered to them in the morning, and had seen them sad,
7. he consulted them, saying, “Why is your expression sadder today than usual?”
8. They responded, “We have seen a dream, and there is no one to interpret it for us.” And Joseph said to them, “Doesn’t interpretation belong to God? Recount for me what you have seen.”
9. The chief cupbearer explained his dream first. “I saw before me a vine,
10. on which were three shoots, which grew little by little into buds, and, after the flowers, it matured into grapes.
11. And the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand. Therefore, I took the grapes, and I pressed them into the cup that I held, and I handed the cup to Pharaoh.”
12. Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three shoots are the next three days,
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.
14. Only 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.
15. For I have been stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and here, innocently, I was cast into the pit.”
16. The chief miller of grain, seeing that he had wisely unraveled the dream, said: “I also saw a dream: that I had three baskets of meal above my head,
17. and in one basket, which was the highest, I carried all foods that are made by the art of baking, and the birds ate from it.”
18. Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three baskets are the next three days,
19. after which Pharaoh will carry away your head, and also suspend you from a cross, and the birds will tear your flesh.”
20. The third day thereafter was the birthday of Pharaoh. And making a great feast for his servants, he remembered, during the banquet, the chief cupbearer and the chief miller of grain.
21. And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup;
22. the other he hanged on a gallows, and thus the truth of the interpreter of dreams was proven.
23. And although he advanced with so much prosperity, the chief cupbearer forgot his interpreter of dreams.

## Genesis 40 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. His ita gestis, accidit ut peccarent duo eunuchi, pincerna regis Ægypti, et pistor, domino suo.
2. Iratusque contra eos Pharao (nam alter pincernis præerat, alter pistoribus),
3. misit eos in carcerem principis militum, in quo erat vinctus et Joseph.
4. At custos carceris tradidit eos Joseph, qui et ministrabat eis: aliquantulum temporis fluxerat, et illi in custodia tenebantur.
5. Videruntque ambo somnium nocte una, juxta interpretationem congruam sibi:
6. ad quos cum introisset Joseph mane, et vidisset eos tristes,
7. sciscitatus est eos, dicens: Cur tristior est hodie solito facies vestra?
8. Qui responderunt: Somnium vidimus, et non est qui interpretetur nobis. Dixitque ad eos Joseph: Numquid non Dei est interpretatio? referte mihi quid videritis.
9. Narravit prior, præpositus pincernarum, somnium suum: Videbam coram me vitem,
10. in qua erant tres propagines, crescere paulatim in gemmas, et post flores uvas maturescere:
11. calicemque Pharaonis in manu mea: tuli ergo uvas, et expressi in calicem quem tenebam, et tradidi poculum Pharaoni.
12. Respondit Joseph: Hæc est interpretatio somnii: tres propagines, tres adhuc dies sunt:
13. post quos recordabitur Pharao ministerii tui, et restituet te in gradum pristinum: dabisque ei calicem juxta officium tuum, sicut ante facere consueveras.
14. Tantum memento mei, cum bene tibi fuerit, et facias mecum misericordiam: ut suggeras Pharaoni ut educat me de isto carcere:
15. quia furto sublatus sum de terra Hebræorum, et hic innocens in lacum missus sum.
16. Videns pistorum magister quod prudenter somnium dissolvisset, ait: Et ego vidi somnium: quod tria canistra farinæ haberem super caput meum:
17. et in uno canistro quod erat excelsius, portare me omnes cibos qui fiunt arte pistoria, avesque comedere ex eo.
18. Respondit Joseph: Hæc est interpretatio somnii: tria canistra, tres adhuc dies sunt:
19. post quos auferet Pharao caput tuum, ac suspendet te in cruce, et lacerabunt volucres carnes tuas.
20. Exinde dies tertius natalitius Pharaonis erat: qui faciens grande convivium pueris suis, recordatus est inter epulas magistri pincernarum, et pistorum principis.
21. Restituitque alterum in locum suum, ut porrigeret ei poculum:
22. alterum suspendit in patibulo, ut conjectoris veritas probaretur.
23. Et tamen succedentibus prosperis, præpositus pincernarum oblitus est interpretis sui.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 8: When dreams are from God, as these were, the interpretation of them is a gift of God. But the generality of dreams are not of this sort; but either proceed from the natural complexions and dispositions of persons, or the roving of their imaginations in the day on such objects as they are much affected with, or from their mind being disturbed with cares and troubles, and oppressed with bodily infirmities: or they are suggested by evil spirits, to flatter, or to terrify weak minds, in order to gain belief, and so draw them into error or superstition; or at least to trouble them in their sleep, whom they cannot move when they are awake: so that the general rule, with regard to dreams, is not to observe them, nor to give any credit to them.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).