Genesis 40:18

Then Ioseph answered, and saide, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three dayes:

Geneva Bible 1599

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 vppermost basket there was of all maner baken meates for Pharaoh: and the birdes did eate them out of the basket vpon mine head.

19Within three dayes shall Pharaoh take thine head from thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birdes shall eate thy flesh from off thee.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Then Ioseph sayde vnto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three braunches are three dayes.

Genesis 41:26The seuen good kine are seuen yeres, and the seuen good eares are seuen yeeres: this is one dreame.

1 Corinthians 10:4And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke (for they dranke of the spiritual Rocke that folowed them: and the Rocke 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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