Genesis 40:18

18 Then Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: 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 the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head;

17 and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked foods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.

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

19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a banquet unto all his slaves, and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his slaves.