Genesis 40:18

And Ioseph aunswered and saide: this is the interpretation thereof. The three baskettes, are three dayes:

Bible (Bishops')

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 the vppermost basket there was of all maner bake meates for Pharao, and the birdes dyd eate them out of the basket that was vpon my head.

19For within three dayes shall Pharao take thy head from thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birdes shall eate thy fleshe from of thee.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12And Ioseph sayde vnto hym, this is the interpretatio of it. The three braunches are three dayes.

Genesis 41:26The seuen good kyne, are seuen yeres, and the seuen good eares are seue yeres also: and it is but one dreame.

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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