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 Then the  chief  baker,  seeing that Joseph  had  so  wisely  interpreted the  dream,  said: “I,  also, dreamed a dream  that  I had three baskets  of  meal  upon  my head; and  that  in  one  basket which was  uppermost  I carried all kinds  of  pastry,  and  that  the birds ate  out  of  it.”

Joseph said  to  him:  “This is the  interpretation  of  the  dream: The three  baskets  are  yet  three days, after  which  Pharao  will  take thy head  from  thee  and  hang thee on  a cross,  and  the  birds shall tear  thy  flesh.”  The  third day after  this  was  the  birthday of Pharao.

At the  banquet  he  remembered the  chief  butler  and  chief baker. The former  he  restored  to his  place;  the  latter  he  caused to be  hanged  on  a gibbet. The chief  butler  rejoiced  in  his  good fortune, but  he  thought  no  more  of  Joseph.



The object  of  suffering. Joseph really  had  a great deal to  endure. At home, after being  derided  by  his brethren, he  was  sold  to  be a slave  in  a strange  land. Then, though  innocent,  he was  thrown  into  prison  and bound with  chains,  as  if  he were  the  worst  of  criminals.