Genesis 40:17

The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream, said: I also dreamed a dream, That I bed three baskets of meal upon my heed:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

In Context

16For I was stolen away out of the land I of the Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon.

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.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:20Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.

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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