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Genesis 40:12

And Joseph saith to him, 'This [is] its interpretation: the three branches are three days;

Young's Literal Translation

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 Pharaoh's cup [is] in my hand, and I take the grapes and press them into the cup of Pharaoh, and I give the cup into the hand of Pharaoh.'

13yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head, and hath put thee back on thy station, and thou hast given the cup of Pharaoh into his hand, according to the former custom when thou wast his butler.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:18And Joseph answereth and saith, 'This [is] its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

Genesis 41:25And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, 'The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to Pharaoh;

Genesis 41:28this [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh.

Daniel 2:36This [is] the dream, and its interpretation we do tell before the king.

Matthew 26:26And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat, this is my body;'

Galatians 4:25for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude 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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