One morning Joseph saw them both looking more sad than usual; and when
he asked what was the matter, they said each had a dream, and they
wanted to know what it meant; for the Egyptians used to think a great
deal of dreams, and there were men among them who pretended to explain
them. Most dreams have no meaning, but these had, and God put it into
Joseph's heart to understand them.
The cup-bearer had dreamt that he saw a vine, and that it had three
bunches of grapes, and that he was squeezing the juice into the king's
cup as he used to do. Joseph said this meant that in three days the
cup-bearer should really hand Pharaoh the cup again; and Joseph begged
that when he was free, he would tell the king about himself, and get
him set free.
Then the baker told his dream--that he had three baskets full of pastry
and bread ready for Pharaoh, but that the birds came down and ate them
up. Joseph was obliged to tell him that this meant that he would be
hanged, and that the vulture and ravens would eat his flesh. So it
happened. Pharaoh looked into the matter in three days' time; he caused
the baker to be hung, and the cup-bearer to come back to his old place.
But the cup-bearer was ungrateful, and forgot all about Joseph in his
prison, trusting to him.