Joseph rose in the morning to serve them as a fellow prisoner and saw that their faces were downcast. “What happened?” he asks. The chief cupbearer tells Joseph his strange dream, and Joseph says to him: “Don’t worry—in three days Pharaoh will restore you to your former position.”

The chief baker, also in prison, says: “I too had a dream.” And Joseph tells him that in three days Pharaoh will behead him and hang him on a tree.

Dream interpretation

Both interpretations came true. What is happening here? Why are the interpretations so different? What is Joseph’s secret? What gave him the insight to say that one man would rise to greatness while the other would be executed?

Joseph had changed. From a young man who lacked basic social sensitivity—who did not see that his brothers hated him and how precarious his situation with them was—he had become a man with high social sensitivity to what others were experiencing.

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