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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And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.
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Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days:
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After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on a cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.
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The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made a great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief butler, and the chief baker.
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And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup: