Genesis 40:10
8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
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:
11 And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: 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.