Genesis 40:12

And Yosef said unto him, This is the pitron (interpretation) of it; The shloshet hasarigim are shloshet yamim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 the kos Pharaoh was in my yad; and I took the anavim (grapes), and pressed them into kos Pharaoh, and I put the kos into the palm of Pharaoh.

13Within shloshet yamim shall Pharaoh lift up thine rosh, and restore thee unto thy ken (place, post); and thou shalt deliver kos Pharaoh into his yad, after the mishpat harishon (former practice) when thou wast his mashkeh.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:18And Yosef answered and said, This is the pitron (interpretation, meaning) thereof: The shloshet hasalim (three baskets) are shloshet yamim.

Genesis 41:25And Yosef said unto Pharaoh, The chalom of Pharaoh is echad: HaElohim hath revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

Genesis 41:28This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh; What HaElohim is about to do He showeth unto Pharaoh.

Daniel 2:36This is the chalom (dream); and we will tell the pesher thereof before the king.

Matthew 26:26And at the Seudah, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having taken matzah, having made HaMotzi, he broke the + 26:26 middle matzah, giving the afikoman to the talmidim, and said, Take and eat, this is my basar.

Galatians 4:25Now, Hagar is the Mount Sinai in Arabia; and corresponds to the Yerushalayim of the present, for she is in avdut with her banim. + 4:25 see 2C 3:14

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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