And Joseph answered and said Immediately, directly, without any further thought and meditation, being divinely instructed: this [is] the interpretation thereof; of the above dream: the three baskets [are] three days; signify three days.
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When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.
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The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”
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“This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.
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Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.”
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Pharaoh’s birthday came three days later, and he prepared a banquet for all his officials and staff. He summoned his chief cup-bearer and chief baker to join the other officials.