Genesis 40:19
within three days Pharaoh will take off your head and hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh.”
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In Context
18Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;
Cross References
Genesis 40:13within 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.
Genesis 40:22but the chief baker he hanged, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Joshua 10:26Then Joshua struck them and killed them. He hung their bodies on five trees, and on the trees they remained hanging until evening.
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 →