Genesis 40:13

within three days Pharaoh will release you from prison and restore you to your office, and you will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.

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In The King James Version

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

In Context

12Then Joseph said to him, ‘This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days;

14But when all goes well with you, remember me, show kindness to me and speak in my behalf to Pharaoh and bring me out of this house;

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Cross References

Genesis 40:19within three days Pharaoh will take off your head and hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh.’

Psalms 3:3But you, Lord, are shield about me, my glory, who lifts up my head.

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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