The cupbearer tells his dream: a vine with three branches budded, blossomed, and produced ripe grapes. He pressed them into Pharaoh's cup. Joseph interprets: three branches are three days. In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position. Then Joseph asks: remember me when it goes well, mention me to Pharaoh, get me out of this place. I was taken from the land of the Hebrews. I have done nothing to deserve this pit.
The baker, heartened, tells his dream: three baskets of bread on his head, and birds eating from the top basket. Joseph interprets: three baskets are three days. In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head — from you — and hang you on a tree. The birds will eat your flesh.
It happens exactly. On the third day — Pharaoh's birthday — both men's fates are fulfilled precisely as Joseph said. And the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph. He forgot him.
