Genesis 40:18

18 “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.

Genesis 40:18 in Other Translations

18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

18 And Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.

18 “This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.

18 Joseph said, "This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days;

18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

18 "This is what it means," Joseph replied. "The three baskets are three days.

18 "This is its interpretation," Joseph replied. "The three baskets are three days.

18 "Here's what your dream means," Joseph said. "The three baskets are three days.

Genesis 40:18 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 40:18

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.

Genesis 40:18 In-Context

16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.

17 In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

18 “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.

19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”

20 Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:

Cross References

• 1. ver 12