Quotes about Interpretation
Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
— Genesis 37:9
He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
— Genesis 37:10
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 40:5
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught.
— Genesis 40:6
“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
— Genesis 40:8
So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
— Genesis 40:9
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 40:11
Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.
— Genesis 40:12
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.
— Genesis 40:13
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
— Genesis 40:16
In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
— Genesis 40:17
Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.
— Genesis 40:18