Genesis 40:21
Good News Translation
He restored the wine steward to his former position,

New Revised Standard Version
He restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand;

Contemporary English Version
He put the personal servant back in his old job

New American Bible
He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, so that he again handed the cup to Pharaoh;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:

gave the cup.

Genesis 40:13 After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore thee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy office, as before thou was wont to do.

Nehemiah 2:1 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before his face.

Context
The Cupbearer and the Baker
20The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made a great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief butler, and the chief baker. 21And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:22The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn.…
Cross References
Genesis 40:2
And Pharao being angry with them, (now the one was chief butler, the other chief baker,)

Genesis 40:13
After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore thee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy office, as before thou was wont to do.

Genesis 41:13
And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.

Nehemiah 1:11
I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

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

Genesis 40:20
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