Genesis 40:12

And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it. The three stems are three days.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

In Context

11And the cup of Pharao was in my hand; and I took the bunch of grapes, and squeezed it into the cup, and gave the cup into Pharao's hand.

13Yet three days and Pharao shall remember thy office, and he shall restore thee to thy place of chief cupbearer, and thou shalt give the cup of Pharao into his hand, according to thy former high place, as thou wast wont to be cupbearer.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:18And Joseph answered and said to him, This is the interpretation of it; The three baskets are three days.

Genesis 41:25And Joseph said to Pharao, The dream of Pharao is one; whatever God does, he has shewn to Pharao.

Genesis 41:28And as for the word which I have told Pharao, whatsoever God intends to do, he has shewn to Pharao:

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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