Genesis 40:12
Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches are yet three days:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 40:18And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.
Genesis 41:25And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.
Genesis 41:28And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come:
Daniel 2:36This is the dream: we will also tell the interpretation thereof before thee, O king.
Matthew 26:26And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my body.
Galatians 4:25For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is, 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 →