◄ Genesis 40:23 ►
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Good News Translation
But the wine steward never gave Joseph another thought--he forgot all about him.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Contemporary English Version
but the king's personal servant completely forgot about Joseph.

New American Bible
Yet the chief cupbearer did not think of Joseph; he forgot him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his interpreter.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his interpreter.

but forgat him.

Job 19:14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.

Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

Psalm 105:19 Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.

Ecclesiastes 9:15,16 Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man. . . .

Amos 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.

Context
The Cupbearer and the Baker
…22The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn. 23But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his interpreter.
Cross References
Genesis 41:1
After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

Genesis 41:9
Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:

Job 19:14
My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.

Psalm 31:12
I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.

Genesis 40:22
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