41:10Genesis 41:10

After two full years of forgetfulness and ingratitude, the chief butler at last remembers Joseph.PP 219.3–220.2 Pharaoh had been angry with his servants and had put both the chief butler and the chief baker in ward in the captain of the guard's house.SG3 148.2 Pharaoh then had two dreams in one night that pointed to the same event and foreshadowed great calamity.PP 219.3–220.2

Although the dreams troubled Pharaoh's mind, the magicians and wise men of Egypt could give no interpretation, so perplexity and distress grew until terror and general agitation spread through the palace.PP 219.3–220.2 That agitation brought back to the butler's mind the circumstances of his own prison dream, the memory of Joseph, and remorse for his forgetfulness and ingratitude.PP 219.3–220.2 Genesis 41:10 is the butler's report to Pharaoh telling how a Hebrew captive held there had interpreted his dream and the chief baker's dream and how both predictions had been fulfilled accurately in every particular.PP 219.3–220.2+1

The report moved Pharaoh, though humiliated to turn from his own wise men to consult an alien slave, to send for Joseph to find relief for his troubled mind.PP 219.3–220.2