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When she saw that he had left his robe in her hand and had escaped,

When he heard me yelling like that, he left his robe with me and ran out."

She put the robe aside until his master came home.

But when I yelled out, he left his robe with me and fled outside."

When his master heard what his wife said as she showed him, "Here's what your slave did to me," he became furious.

Pharaoh became angry with his two officers the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

One night the two of them, the king of Egypt's cupbearer and his baker, there in prison, both had dreams, each dream with its own meaning.

He asked Pharaoh's officers there with him in the prison of his master's house, "Why are you looking so sad today?"

Then the chief cupbearer told Yosef his dream: "In my dream, there in front of me was a vine,

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office: you will be giving Pharaoh his cup as you used to when you were his cupbearer.

(Maftir) On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he gave a party for all his officials, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his officials.

He restored the chief cupbearer back to his position, so that he again gave Pharaoh his cup.

In the morning he found himself so upset that he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one there could interpret them for him.

Pharaoh was angry with his officials and put me in the prison of the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

Then Pharaoh summoned Yosef, and they brought him quickly out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh.

Yosef answered Pharaoh, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer that will set his mind at peace."

The proposal seemed good both to Pharaoh and to all his officials.

Pharaoh said to his officials, "Can we find anyone else like him? The Spirit of God lives in him!"

Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and put it on Yosef's hand, had him clothed in fine linen with a gold chain around his neck

and had him ride in his second best chariot; and they cried before him, "Bow down!" Thus he placed him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.