Genesis 40:18

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

Majority Standard Bible

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 sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

19Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

Genesis 41:26The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.

1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and 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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