Genesis 40:18

And 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.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17The 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:

19Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets are yet three days:

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches are yet three days:

Genesis 41:26Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.

1 Corinthians 10:4And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the 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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