Genesis 40:1
New International Version
Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.

New Living Translation
Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker offended their royal master.

English Standard Version
Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt.

Berean Standard Bible
Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
It came to pass after these things that the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

New American Standard Bible
Then it came about after these things, that the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

NASB 1995
Then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

NASB 1977
Then it came about after these things the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now it happened that after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

Amplified Bible
Now some time later, the cupbearer (butler) and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, Egypt’s king.

Christian Standard Bible
After this, the king of Egypt’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
After this, the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

American Standard Version
And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And it was after these events, the Chief of Drink of the King of Egypt and the Chief Baker sinned against their Lord, the King of Egypt.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And it came to pass after these things, that the chief cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the chief baker trespassed against their lord the king of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.

English Revised Version
And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Later the king's cupbearer and his baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

Good News Translation
Some time later the king of Egypt's wine steward and his chief baker offended the king.

International Standard Version
Some time later, both the senior security advisor to the king of Egypt and his head chef offended their master, Egypt's king.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Literal Standard Version
And it comes to pass, after these things—the butler of the king of Egypt and the baker have sinned against their lord, against the king of Egypt;

Majority Standard Bible
Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

New American Bible
Some time afterward, the royal cupbearer and baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

NET Bible
After these things happened, the cupbearer to the king of Egypt and the royal baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

New Heart English Bible
It happened after these things that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, after these things -- the butler of the king of Egypt and the baker have sinned against their lord, against the king of Egypt;

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Context
The Cupbearer and the Baker
1 Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt. 2Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,…

Cross References
Genesis 40:2
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

Genesis 40:5
both of these men--the Egyptian king's cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison--had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

Genesis 40:11
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand."

Genesis 40:13
Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)


Treasury of Scripture

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.

it came.

Genesis 39:20-23
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…

Esther 6:1
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.

the butler.

Genesis 40:13
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.

Nehemiah 1:11
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.

Nehemiah 2:1,2
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…

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Genesis 40
1. The chief butler and baker of Pharaoh are also imprisoned.
5. Joseph interprets their dreams.
20. They are accomplished according to his interpretation.
23. The ingratitude of the butler, in forgetting Joseph.














XL.

JOSEPH INTERPRETS THE DREAMS OF THE CHIEF BUTLER AND BAKER.

(1) Butler.--Heb., one who gives to drink, cupbearer. As we learn in Genesis 40:11 that it was grapewine which he gave the king to drink, this chapter has been the main dependence of the new critics for their proof that the Book of Genesis was not written by Moses. For Herod. (i. 77) says, "The Egyptians make use of wine prepared from barley, because there are no vineyards in their country." As Herodotus was thirteen centuries later than the time of Joseph, they argue not only that the vine could not have been introduced into Egypt at so early a date, but that the records of Joseph's life could not have been put together by anyone acquainted with Egypt, in spite of their exact knowledge in all other respects of Egyptian customs. But when we turn to Herodotus himself, we find the most complete refutation of the previous statement. For, in Book ii. 37, speaking of the liberal treatment of the priests, he says, that they had an allowance of "grape-wine." Again, in Genesis 39, he tells us that it was the custom to pour wine on a victim about to be sacrificed. To one used to the extensive vineyards of Greece and Asia Minor, the comparative scarcity of the vine, and the use of another ordinary drink in its place, would be striking; but that he was guilty of gross exaggeration in his statement is proved by evidence far more trustworthy than his own writings. For, on the tombs at Beni-hassan, which are anterior to the time of Joseph, on those at Thebes, and on the Pyramids, are representations of vines grown in every way, except that usual in Italy, festooned on trees; there is every process of the vintage, grapes in baskets, men trampling them in vats, various forms of presses for squeezing out the juice, jars for storing it, and various processes, even of the fermentation, noticed. Numerous engravings of the sculptures and paintings on these ancient monuments may be seen in Wilkinson's Egypt; and most abundant evidence of the culture of the vine in ancient Egypt has been collected, and an account of the vines grown there given in Malan's Philosophy or Truth, pp. 31-39. It neither is nor ever was a great wine-producing country, but the vine existed from one end of the country to the other, as it does at this day.

Baker.--Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, ii. 38, 39, gives proof from the monuments, that they had carried the art of making confectionery to very great perfection.

Verse 1. - And it came to pass (literally, and it was) after these things (literally, words, i.e. after the transactions just re. corded), that the butler - מָשְׁקֶה, the hiph. part. of שָׁקָה, to drink, signifies one who causes to drink, hence cupbearer (cf. ver. 11) - of the king of Egypt and his baker - the אֹפֶה (part. of אָפָה, to cook or bake) was the officer who prepared the king's food. The monuments show that the Egyptians had carried the arts of the confectioner and cook to a high degree of perfection (vide Hengstenberg, 'Egypt and the Books of Moses,' p. 27; Wilkinson, 'Ancient Egyptians,' 2:33-39, ed. 1878) - had offended (or sinned against) their lord (literally, against, the preposition being repeated) the king of Egypt - whom they had attempted to poison (the Targum of Jonathan), though this of course is only a conjecture in the absence of specific information.

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Hebrew
Some time later,
אַחַר֙ (’a·ḥar)
Adverb
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

the king’s
מֶֽלֶךְ־ (me·leḵ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

cupbearer
מַשְׁקֵ֥ה (maš·qêh)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4945: Causing to drink, a butler, drink, a well-watered region

and baker
וְהָאֹפֶ֑ה (wə·hā·’ō·p̄eh)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 644: To cook, to bake

offended
חָֽטְא֛וּ (ḥā·ṭə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn

their master,
לַאֲדֹנֵיהֶ֖ם (la·’ă·ḏō·nê·hem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 113: Sovereign, controller

the king
לְמֶ֥לֶךְ (lə·me·leḵ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Egypt.
מִצְרָֽיִם׃ (miṣ·rā·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa


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