Genesis 40:12

Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three shoots are the next three days,

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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 the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand. Therefore, I took the grapes, and I pressed them into the cup that I held, and I handed the cup to Pharaoh.”

13after which Pharaoh will remember your service, and he will restore you to your former position. And you will give him the cup according to your office, as you were accustomed to do before.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:18Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three baskets are the next three days,

Genesis 41:25Joseph responded: “The dream of the king is one. What God will do, he has revealed to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:28These will be fulfilled in this order.

Daniel 2:36This is the dream; we will also tell its interpretation before you, O king.

Matthew 26:26Now while they were eating the meal, Jesus took bread, and he blessed and broke and gave it to his disciples, and he said: “Take and eat. This is my body.”

Galatians 4:25For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons.

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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