Genesis 40:18

“This is the meaning,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets represent three days.

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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 were all the cakes and pastries for Pharaoh to eat, and the birds were eating them from the basket on my head.”

19In three days' time Pharaoh will take you out of prison and hang you on a pole, and birds will eat your flesh.”

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12“This is the meaning,” Joseph told him. “The three branches represent three days.

Genesis 41:26The seven good cows and the seven good heads of grain represent seven good years of harvest. The dreams mean the same thing.

1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink, for they “drank from a spiritual rock” that accompanied them. That rock was Christ.

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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