Genesis 40:10
8 “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.”
9 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.
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.”
12 Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.
- KJV
- And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
- WEB
- and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
- ASV
- and in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, [and] its blossoms shot forth; [and] the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
- DARBY
- and in the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded: its blossoms shot forth, its clusters ripened into grapes.
- BLB
- And in the vine [were] three branches. And it [was] as though it budded, its blossoms came up, [and] its clusters ripened grapes.
- ÅB
- og på vintreet var det tre greiner, og det skjøt knopper, blomstene kom fram, klasene modnedes til druer.
- OTB
- og på vinranken var det tre grener. Da den knoppet, åpnet dens blomster seg, og dens klaser modnet til druer.
- B1930
- og på vintreet var det tre grener, og det skjøt knopper, blomstene kom frem, klasene modnedes til druer.