Genesis 40:12

And Joseph said unto him, This is its interpretation: The three branches are three days;

Leeser Tanakh

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 Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them out into Pharaoh's cup, and I placed the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

13Within yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thy office; and thou shalt place Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 41:25And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, the dream of Pharaoh is one, that which God is about to do, he hath told to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:28This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he hath shown unto Pharaoh.

Daniel 2:36This is the dream; and its interpretation will we relate before the king.

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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