Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head from off thee Order thee to be beheaded; so the Targum of Jonathan and Ben Melech interpret it,
``Pharaoh shall remove thy head from thy body with a sword:''
and shall hang thee on a tree; his body after his head was severed from it, this should be hung upon a gallows or gibbet, and there continue: and the birds shall eat the flesh from off thee; as they usually do when bodies are thus hung up, see ( 2 Samuel 21:92 Samuel 21:10 ) ; this was signified by the birds eating the bakemeats out of the uppermost basket when upon his head, as it seemed to him in his dream.
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In the uppermost basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
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So Joseph answered and said, "This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you."
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Now it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
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Then he restored the chief butler to his butlership again, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.