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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In the top basket were all kinds of baked food for the king, but the birds were eating this food out of the basket on my head."
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Joseph answered, "I will tell you what the dream means. The three baskets stand for three days.
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Before the end of three days, the king will cut off your head! He will hang your body on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh."
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Three days later, on his birthday, the king gave a feast for all his officers. In front of his officers, he released from prison the chief officer who served his wine and the chief baker.
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The king gave his chief officer who served wine his old position, and once again he put the king's cup of wine into the king's hand.