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"This is its interpretation," Joseph replied. "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.
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: