Genesis 40:12
Then Joseph said to the wine-boss, “All right, I will tell you what that dream means. Those 3 branches that you saw, they are like a picture of 3 days.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 40:18Then Joseph said, “I will tell you what that dream means. Those 3 baskets that you saw, they are like a picture of 3 days.
Genesis 41:25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Sir, both those dreams mean the same thing. God gave you those dreams to show you what he is going to do next.”
Genesis 41:28Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Sir, God gave you those dreams to show you what he is going to do next, just like I said.
Galatians 4:25Hagar is a picture of the big hill called Sinai in Arabia country, and she is like the city here on earth called Jerusalem, where people have to follow that Jewish law. That city and its people are like prisoners that have to work all the time. They are not free.
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 →