Genesis 40:12

12 Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

Genesis 40:12 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 40:12

And Joseph said unto him, this [is] the interpretation of it,
&c.] Of the dream: the three branches [are] three days;
signify three days, or, as Jarchi expresses it, are a sign of three days; which Joseph could know only by divine revelation; for there is no more likeness between branches and days, than between them and months or years, and bid as fair to signify one as the other, if the interpretation depended on similarity, or bare conjecture.

Genesis 40:12 In-Context

10 and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”

12 Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

13 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

14 But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.