Genesis 40:18

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

Barkly (portions)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17In the top basket there were all sorts of bread that the king likes to eat, but birds came and started to eat that bread.”

19and so, in 3 days time, the king will cut off your head and hang your body on a tree. The birds will come and eat your body.”

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Joseph said to him, “This is what your dream means. The 3 branches are a picture for 3 days.

Genesis 41:26The 7 good looking cows and the 7 good bunches of seeds are pictures of the same thing. They are pictures of 7 good years that are coming.

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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