Objects

cup

Pharaoh's cup appears in the chief cup-bearer's prison dream in Genesis 40; in Genesis 44 Joseph plants his own silver cup in Benjamin's sack to test his brothers.

Category

Objects

First mention

Genesis 40:11

Tags

2

Genesis 40, 44Royal service

Scripture references

  • Genesis 40:11

    I had Pharaoh's cup in my hand; I picked the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and put the cup into Pharaoh's hand.'

  • Genesis 40:13

    In another three days Pharaoh will lift up your head by restoring you to your position. Then you will hand Pharaoh his cup, as you did before, when you were his cup-bearer.

  • Genesis 40:21

    the chief cup-bearer by restoring him to his cup-bearing, so that he again handed Pharaoh his cup;

  • Genesis 44:2

    And put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack as well as the money for his rations.' He did as Joseph had instructed.

  • Genesis 44:5

    Is this not what my lord uses for drinking and also for reading omens? What you have done is wrong.

  • Genesis 44:12

    He searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, and found the cup in Benjamin's sack.