“Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.”
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh. The unfavorable interpretation — execution, body impaled, birds — is delivered without softening. The same phrase lift up your head is used for both the cupbearer (restored) and the baker (executed) — the ambiguity of the phrase resolved differently in each case. The application: the gift of interpretation is exercised honestly even when the honest interpretation is devastating. Joseph does not soften what he has received.
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