Genesis 40:12

And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

In Context

11And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

13Within yet three days Pharaoh shall lift up thy head, and restore thee to thine office. And thou shall give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou was his butler.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:18And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.

Genesis 41:25And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:28That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

Daniel 2:36This is the dream, and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

Matthew 26:26And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, having expressed thanks, broke in pieces, and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is my body.

Galatians 4:25For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20

5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →

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