Genesis 40:13

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand, just as when you were his cupbearer.

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Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

In Context

12Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three days.

14But think of me when it goes well with you, and please show kindness to me. Mention me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:19Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree. The birds will eat your flesh off you.”

Psalms 3:3But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, 1 my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. 1

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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