Genesis 40:18

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

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

In Context

17and in the upper basket were all (sorts of) food for Pharoh, the work of the baker; and the birds ate them from the basket that was on my head.

19At the end of three days will Pharoh remove thy head from off thee, and will hang thee upon a gibbet, and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation: the three branches are three days.

Genesis 41:26The seven good oxen are seven years; and the seven good ears of corn are seven years; the dream is one.

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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