Chap. XL c Heb. Days, 7.e. either many Days, or a Vear, as that word ſometimes ſignifies. See Gene 24. 55. 5 4 And they ereamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream d, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the priſon. : &@ (7z.e.) Not a vain and idke dream, but one that had in it a ; ſignification of future things, and need: ir!terpretation ; and the ſeveral Dreams were proper and agreeable to the ſeveral events which , befe! them, and to the ſeveral Inrerpretations which Joſepy put vpon | them : The Dream and Interpretation did ficly anſwer one to the OTNer. 6 And Joſeph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and behold, they were ſad e. e Perplexed and terrified both, becauſe they perceived the Dream was extraordinary and ſent from God, compare Gen: 41: 8: Dan: 2: r: Matth: 27: 19: and becauſe they underſtoed not the meaning of it. 7 Andhe asked Pharaehs officers that were with him 12 the ward of his lords houſe, ſaying, Wherefore 7 + Heb. ar look ye ſo ſadly to day ? | your faces 8 And they faid unto him, We have dreamed a me dream, and there isno interpreter of itf. And Joſeph ſaid unto them, * Do not interpretations belong ro *Seechap: God g ? Tell me h them, I pray you. 41: 16: 7 To wit, with us, or to whom we can now reſort ; for other- Din: 2: wiſe there were many in Egypt of that profeſfion, Chap 41.8. g In 11, 28: vain do you expett (uch things from your Wiſemen, for it is only that God who tends theſe Dreams, that can Interpret them, and ro him you ſhould ſeek for it. þ Who am the Servant cf the true God, who uſeth to communicate his Secrets to his Pe: ple, and wio, I doubt not, will hear my Prayers for this Mercy. This he ſpoke - yy direCtion and inſtiat from God, who had given this gitt to hirg. '9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joſcph, and ſaid to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me 3; Io And in the vine were three branches, and it 24s as though it budded, and her bloſſoms ſhot forth, azd the clutters thereof brought forth ripe grapes. I: And Pharaohs cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, and preſſed them inco Pharaohs cup, and [ gare the cup into Pharaohs hand. 2 And Joſeph faid unto him, This is the incer- _—— of it the three branches are 3 three ays. # (7.e,) Signify. So that word is oft uſed, as Yerſe 18: and 41. 26, 27: Dan: 2: 38. and 4: 22: Matth: 13: 19, 38: and 26: 26, 28: Luke 8: 11: 1 Cor: 10: 4: And indeed there is no proper Hebrew
word which anſwers to ſignify. 13 Yet within three days ſhall Pharaoh Þ lift up » g, ,«x
thine head k, and reſtere thee unto thy place, and thou on 7hee, ſhalt deliver Pharaohs cup into his haud, after the
former manner whea thou waſt his butler k (7.e. ) Advance thee to thy former dignity. So that phraſ: is uſed, 2 Kings 25; 27; Pſal: t10: 79, Or, reckon thy head, 1. e. thy names or thy perſon, to wir, among his Servants, which is added, Yerſe 20. According to the cuſtom, which was this ; Ar ſer times Governours of Families uſed to take an Account of their Servants, and to have the Names of their Servants read to them, and they either left them in the Catalogue, or put any of them our, as they ſav, fit, and inflifted ſuch further Puniſhments upon any ofrhem as theP deſerved. This ſeems the truer Interpretation, b:cauſe it is ſaid that Pharaoh lifted up the head of his Butler, and of his Baker, Yerſe 20. and therefore the phraſe:muſt be ſo expounded, as to agree equally to both. 14 Bur f think on me, when it ſhall be well with + x5. ; thee, and ſhew kindneſs, I pray thee, unto me, and member m: make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out with zhed
of this houſe /.
I Though he patiently endures his Priſon, yet he prudently uſeth all lawful means to get his freedom. 15 For indeed I was ftollen away » out of the land
of the Hebrews » : and here alſo have I done nothing
o that they ſhould put me into the dungeon.
mm Taken away by force and fraud without my own, or Father's conſent. » Our of the Land of Canaan, which he might cail the Land of Hebrews, either becauſe they now dwelt in it, or by way of proteſtation of their right and claim to it by God's Gifr. Or rather thus, outof that part of Canaan where the Hebrews dwell ; for the word Land 1s not only ſpoken of whole Countries, as of the whole Land of Canaan, but of any parts or parcels thereof, as Gen: 13: 6: and 22: 2: and 23: 5: and 34: 1. e« Obſerve, thar Joſeph doth not accuſe either kis Brethren or his Miſtreſs, but only aſſerts his own Innocency, which was neceſſary for his deli- Verance. . :
x6 When the chief baker ſaw that the interpretation
was good, he ſaid unto Joſeph, I alſo wasin my dream, and behold, I hed three + white p baskets on my +0Or, fu head. of holes.
p So called from the Colour, either of the Baskets, which were made of pilled, and ſo white Twigs, or of the things contained in + Heb. them, as white Bread, Oc. meat of |
of 17 And in the uppermoſt basket there was of all m— f
manner of + bake-meats for Pharaoh, and the birds , zatr, | did cnc them out of the Dames pon wy head. — = «wh, | x3 And
4 Heb.f,
ec
"7 Tm
heel
Chap. XLI.
4 Or, vt” 01 thee,an rake thy Othce from thee
* Mark 6.
22. +QOr, reck- oned.
# Heb.far.
13 And Joſeph anſwered, and ſaid, This is the In- | terpretation thereof : the three baskets are three days : i9 Yet within three days ſhall Pharaoh Þ lifr up thy head from 9 off thee, and ſhall hang thee on a tree,and the birds ſhail eat thy fleſh from off thee.
g This clauſe 1s induſtriouſly added here to the former Phraſe,
to was now meant in another ſenſe. He ſball indeed lift up thy 222d, as well asthe chief Butlers, but in another manner, rotfor taee, but from thee, or ſo as to take away thy Head, or thy Life,( which eminently conliſts, and appears in the Head ) from thee, | : »o 4 Andit came to paſs the third day, hich was Pharaohs birth-day r, that he * made a feaft unto all his ſervants: and he + lifted up the head of the chief but- ler, and of the chief haker among his ſervants.
7 Which by perſons of Eminency then was, and ſince hath uſu- ally been, cclebrated with Feaſting and Rejoycing.
21 And he reftored the chief butier unto his but- lerſhip again, and he gave the cup into Pharaohs
hand. : | : 22 But he hanged the chief baker, as Joſeph had in-
terpreted to them»