Chuàngshìjì 40:11

11 Fǎlǎo de bēi zaì wǒ shǒu zhōng , wǒ jiù ná pútào jǐ zaì fǎlǎo de bēi lǐ , jiāng bēi dì zaì tā shǒu zhōng .

Chuàngshìjì 40:11 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 40:11

And Pharaoh's cup [was] in his hand
So it seemed to him in his dream, as it often had been when in his office: and I took the grapes;
from off the vine that was before him: and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup;
which some think was the custom of those times, to take a bunch of grapes and squeeze them into a cup, especially when they would make trial of what sort of wine they would produce; for it can hardly be thought that this was usually done, or that it was customary to drink such new wine; but it is more probable that the grapes were first pressed into another vessel, and so made wine of, and then poured into Pharaoh's cup, or mixed in it, though this circumstance is omitted. Indeed Herodotus ^F1 relates of the Egyptian priests, that wine pressed out of the vine is given them: and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand;
as he had used to do.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Euterpe sive, l. 2. c. 37.

Chuàngshìjì 40:11 In-Context

9 Jiǔ zhèng biàn jiàng tāde mèng gàosu Yūesè shuō , wǒ mèng jiàn zaì wǒ miànqián yǒu yī kē pútàoshù ,

10 Shù shàng yǒu sān gēn zhīzǐ , hǎoxiàng fā le yá , kāi le huā , shàng tóu de pútào dōu chéng shú le .

11 Fǎlǎo de bēi zaì wǒ shǒu zhōng , wǒ jiù ná pútào jǐ zaì fǎlǎo de bēi lǐ , jiāng bēi dì zaì tā shǒu zhōng .

12 Yūesè duì tā shuō , tā suǒ zuò de mèng shì zhèyàng jiè , sān gēn zhīzǐ jiù shì sān tiān .

13 Sān tiān zhī neì , fǎlǎo bì tí nǐ chū jiàn , jiào nǐ guān fù yuán zhí , nǐ réng yào dì bēi zaì fǎlǎo de shǒu zhōng , hé xiānqián zuò tāde jiǔ zhèng yíyàng .