the chief baker

Family: Egyptians · Role: Pharaoh's chief baker · First appears: Joseph In Prison

After offending Pharaoh (Joseph's), the chief baker was imprisoned with the chief butler at the house of the captain of the guard. He was friends with the chief butler, and when the butler heard the interpretation of his dream, he told Joseph what he had dreamed. The two men remained confined for ten years, and Pharaoh condemned them to death. On the third day after the child’s birth, Pharaoh had the chief baker hanged.

Relationship record

Life events

• The chief butler and chief baker were imprisoned after offending Pharaoh.(Joseph In Prison · 📍 the house of the captain of the guard)
  • With: the chief butler
  • “they were put in ward in the house of the captain of the guard.”
• Pharaoh condemned the chief butler and chief baker to death.(Joseph In Prison)
  • With: Pharaoh (Joseph's) the chief butler
  • “On account of all these transgressions they were condemned to death by Pharaoh”
• The chief butler and chief baker remained confined in prison for ten years.(Joseph In Prison · 📍 prison)
  • With: the chief butler
  • “The chief butler and the chief baker had been confined in prison ten years”
• Pharaoh had the chief baker hanged.(Joseph In Prison)
  • With: Pharaoh (Joseph's)
  • “and the chief baker was hanged”

Joseph In Prison

• friends with the chief butler “When the chief baker heard the interpretation of the butler's dream, he knew that Joseph had divined its meaning correctly, for in his own he had seen the interpretation of his friend's dream, and he proceeded to tell Joseph what he had dreamed in the night:”
• employer: Pharaoh (Joseph's) “The charges laid at the door of the noble prisoners were that they had attempted to do violence to the daughter of Pharaoh, and they had conspired to poison the king himself.”

Also listed in Egyptians — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.