Genesis 40:18

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

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In The King James Version

And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

In Context

17and in one basket, which was the highest, I carried all foods that are made by the art of baking, and the birds ate from it.”

19after which Pharaoh will carry away your head, and also suspend you from a cross, and the birds will tear your flesh.”

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three shoots are the next three days,

Genesis 41:26The seven beautiful cows, and the seven full ears of grain, are seven years of abundance. And so the force of the dreams is understood to be the same.

1 Corinthians 10:4And they all drank of the same spiritual drink. And so, they all were drinking of the spiritual rock seeking to obtain them; and that rock was Christ.

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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