Genesis 40:5
Good News Translation
One night there in prison the wine steward and the chief baker each had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.

New Revised Standard Version
One night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own meaning.

Contemporary English Version
One night each of the two men had a dream, but their dreams had different meanings.

New American Bible
the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt who were confined in the jail both had dreams on the same night, each his own dream and each dream with its own meaning.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves:

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And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves:

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Genesis 40:8 They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:

Genesis 12:1-7 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. . . .

Genesis 20:3 And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Genesis 37:5-10 Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. . . .

Genesis 41:1-7,11 After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river, . . .

Numbers 12:6 He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

Judges 7:13,14 And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in this manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the camp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent, it struck it, and beat it down flat to the ground. . . .

Esther 6:1 That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,

Job 33:15-17 By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: . . .

Daniel 2:1-3 In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind. . . .

Daniel 4:5,9,19 Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is Baltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him. . . .

Daniel 7:1-8:27 In the first year of Baltasar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he comprehended it in a few words: and relating the sum of it in short, he said: . . .

Context
The Cupbearer and the Baker
4But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody. 5And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves:6And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad,…
Cross References
Genesis 40:1
After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.

Genesis 40:4
But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.

Genesis 40:6
And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad,

Genesis 41:11
Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.

Daniel 2:1
In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind.

Genesis 40:4
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