As for the chief baker, Pharaoh’s anger was hard against him, for much was revealed that had been hidden. He too was set free from prison, but to be hanged on high upon a gibbet. And the birds of the air stripped his bones of their flesh, and another man was appointed in his stead. So all things came to pass as Joseph had divined and foretold; yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Seeing at length that no help was to come from him, Joseph cast out of memory the longing that had sprung up in his heart that day, like a gourd after rain, and for the two years that followed he continued to go about his duties as he was accustomed to in the prison-house.