Genesis 40:18

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 uppermost basket, was some of every kind of food for Pharaoh that a baker could make,—but, the birds, kept eating them out of the basket from off my head.

19In three days more, will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee upon a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12And Joseph said to him, This, is the interpretation thereof,—The three shoots are three days:

Genesis 41:26The seven good heifers, are, seven years, and, the seven good ears are, seven years,—the dream, is, one.

1 Corinthians 10:4And, all, drank, the same spiritual drink,—for they continued to drink of the spiritual rock that followed them, and, the rock, was the 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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