Genesis 40:18

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

Brenton Septuagint

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 upper basket there was the work of the baker of every kind which Pharao eats; and the fowls of the air ate them out of the basket that was on my head.

19Yet three days, and Pharao shall take away thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds of the sky shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it. The three stems are three days.

Genesis 41:26The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream of Pharao is one.

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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