Genesis 40:12

And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation: the three branches are three days.

Targum Onkelos

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 cup of Pharoh was in my hand; and I took grapes and expressed them into Pharohs cup, and gave the cup into Pharoh’s hand.

13At the end of three days, Pharoh will remember thee and restore thee to thy service, and thou wilt give the cup into Pharoh’s hand, according to thy former custom when thou wast cupbearer to him.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 41:25And Joseph answered Pharoh, The dream of Pharoh is one. That which the Lord is about to do He hath showed to Pharoh.

Genesis 41:28This is the word which I have spoken to Pharoh. What the Lord is about to do, He hath showed to Pharoh.

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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