Joseph interprets the butler's dream - he'll be restored to Pharaoh's service. Joseph asks him to remember him, to mention him when he's back in favor.
The butler forgets. Joseph stays in prison for two more years because the person he asked for help abandoned him after getting what he wanted.
I experienced betrayal similar to this - asking someone I'd helped to remember me, to advocate for me. They forgot. Or they didn't consider me worth the risk. That's a particular kind of wound - not immediate violence, but the slow realization that you were worth less than you thought.
Joseph's request is vulnerable. His forgetting is realistic. The passage doesn't resolve the injustice of it. It just shows what happened.
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