The Cupbearer and the Baker
Genesis 40:23
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.
- KJV
- Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
- WEB
- Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
- ASV
- Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
- LSV
- and the chief of the butlers has not remembered Joseph, but forgets him.
- YLT
- and the chief of the butlers hath not remembered Joseph, but forgetteth him.
- DBY
- But the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and forgot him.
- DRC
- But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his interpreter.
- GNV
- Yet the chiefe butler did not remember Ioseph, but forgate him.
- JPS
- Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.
- LXXE
- Yet did not the chief cupbearer remember Joseph, but forgot him.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְלֹֽא־זָכַ֧ר שַֽׂר־הַמַּשְׁקִ֛ים אֶת־יוֹסֵ֖ף וַיִּשְׁכָּחֵֽהוּ׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ οὐκ ἐμνήσθη ὁ ἀρχιοινοχόος τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ, ἀλλαʼ ἐπελάθετο αὐτοῦ.
Who and where
👤 Joseph (son of Jacob)◆ Joseph imprisoned
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 19:14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
- Psalms 31:12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- Psalms 105:19until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.
- Amos 6:6You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
- Ecclesiastes 9:15–16Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man. And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his…
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