Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
And the chief of the butlers speaketh with Pharaoh, saying, `My sin I mention this day:
Then spoke the chief of the cup-bearers to Pharaoh, saying, I remember mine offences this day.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 40:14But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
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Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!”
And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.
then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your maidservant.”
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Genesis 40:23The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.
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I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Voices4
Therefore, being warned in a dream by the king, he said: I remember my sin. Indeed, it is late, but I wish it were a true confession! After the sin, you confess what you should have guarded against before the sin. How quickly you had forgotten: Remember me. You certainly know that at that time this was the discourse: but you had deaf ears due to the pride of power, and being drunk with wine, you did not hear the words of sobriety. Even now, remember me, as you confess your sin late.
Ambrose of Milan· On Joseph the Patriarch, 397patristic
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
I do remember my faults - It is not possible he could have forgotten the circumstance to which he here alludes; it was too intimately connected with all that was dear to him, to permit him ever to forget it. But it was not convenient for him to remember this before; and probably he would not have remembered it now, had he not seen, that giving this information in such a case was likely to serve his own interest.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The king can scarce allow him time, but that decency required it, to shave himself, and to change his raiment, chap. xli, 14. It is done with all possible expedition, and Joseph is brought in perhaps almost as much surprised as Peter was, Acts xii, 9, so suddenly is his captivity brought back, that he is as one that dreams, Psalm lxxvi, 1.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
The verses this one reaches9
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.
Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)
Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
