Genesis 40:17

In the top basket there were all sorts of bread that the king likes to eat, but birds came and started to eat that bread.”

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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

16The king's baker listened to what Joseph said and he was happy with what he heard. So he said to Joseph, “I had a dream too. I saw that I had 3 baskets of bread on top of my head.

18Joseph said to him, “The 3 baskets are a picture for 3 days,

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Cross References

Genesis 49:20Asher's country will grow a lot of food. That food will be so good, kings will want to eat it.

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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