Genesis 40:12

Joseph answered, This is the expounding of the dream; three scions be yet three days, (Joseph answered, This is the dream’s interpretation; the three branches be three days yet to come,)

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In The King James Version

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

In Context

11and (then) the cup of Pharaoh was in mine hand; therefore I took the grapes, and pressed them out into the cup that I held, and I gave (the) drink to Pharaoh (or and I gave it to Pharaoh to drink).

13after which Pharaoh shall have mind of thy service, and he shall restore thee into the first degree, and thou shalt give to him the cup, by thine office, as thou were wont to do before. (and then Pharaoh shall remember thy service, and he shall restore thee to thy place, and thou shalt give him the cup, as per thy duties, yea, as thou were wont to do before.)

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Cross References

Genesis 40:18Joseph answered, This is the expounding of the dream; three baskets be yet three days, (Joseph answered, This is the dream’s interpretation; the three baskets be three days yet to come,)

Genesis 41:25Joseph answered, The dream of the king is one (or The dreams of the king be one dream); God hath showed to Pharaoh what things he shall do.

Genesis 41:28which shall be fulfilled by this order. (which shall be fulfilled in this order.)

Daniel 2:36This is the dream. Also, thou king, we shall say before thee the interpreting thereof. (That is the dream. And, O king, now we shall tell thee its interpretation.)

Matthew 26:26And while they supped, Jesus took bread, and blessed [it], (or and gave thanks), and brake (it), and gave (it) to his disciples, and said, Take ye, and eat; this is my body.

Galatians 4:25For Sinai is an hill that is in Arabia, which hill is joined to it that is now Jerusalem, and serveth with her children.

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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