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Genesis 40:19

Within 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.”

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In The King James Version

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

In Context

18Joseph answered and said, “This is the interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

20It came about on the third day that it was Pharaoh's birthday. He made a feast for all his servants. He lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers, among his servants.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:13Within 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.

Genesis 40:22But he hanged the chief of the bakers, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Deuteronomy 21:22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

Joshua 10:26Then Joshua attacked and killed the kings. He hung them on five trees. They hung on the trees until evening.

1 Samuel 17:46Today Yahweh will give me victory over you, and I will kill you and remove your head from your body. Today I will give the dead bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the heavens and to the wild beasts of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

2 Samuel 21:10Then Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the mountain beside the dead bodies, from the beginning of harvest until the rain poured down on them from the sky. She did not allow the birds of the sky to disturb the bodies by day or the wild animals by night.

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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