Genesis 40:18

Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”

19Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

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Cross References

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

Genesis 41:26The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

1 Corinthians 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

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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