Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
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Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
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And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
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And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Genesis 40:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 40:12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
- Genesis 41:26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
- 1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 11:24 When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He showeth that the ministers of God ought not…
He showeth that the ministers of God ought not to conceal that, which God revealeth unto them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This [is]…
Gen 40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:
Ver. 18. And Joseph answered, &c.] It is probable he used some preface to this sad destiny he reads him; as Philo brings him in saying, I would thou hadst not dreamed such a dream: {a} or as Daniel prefaced to Nebuchadnezzar; "My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation to thine enemies." {Dan 4:19} If ministers, God’s interpreters, must be mannerly in the form, yet in the matter of their message they must be resolute. {a} Not only toothless, but bitter truths must be told, however they be taken. "If I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ." {Gal 1:10}
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{a} Utinam tale somnium non vidisses.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Joseph answered and said,.... Immediately, directly, without any…
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:
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the three baskets are three days; signify three days.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation--The purport…
Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation--The purport was that in three days his execution should be ordered. The language of Joseph describes minutely one form of capital punishment that prevailed in Egypt; namely, that the criminal was decapitated and then his headless body gibbeted on a tree by the highway till it was gradually devoured by the ravenous birds.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 18, 19. And Joseph answered and said (with…
Vers. 18, 19. And Joseph answered and said (with what reluctance and pathos may be imagined), This is the interpretation thereof (the exposition was supplied by God, and, however willing or anxious Joseph might be to soften its meaning to his auditor, he could not deviate a hair"s-breadth from what he knew to be the mind of God): The three baskets are three days: yet within three days literally, in three days more (ut supra, ver. 13) shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee (i.e. deprive thee of life, the phrase containing a resemblance to that employed in ver. 13, and finding its explanation in the words that follow), and shall hang thee on a tree i.e. after decapitation (cf. Deu_21:22; Jos_10:26; 2Sa_4:12) which was probably the mode of execution at that time practiced in Egypt (Michaelis, Clarke, Keil, Murphy, Alford, Inglis, Bush), though some regard the clause as a description of the way in which the baker s life was to be taken from him, viz., either by crucifixion (Onkelos, Rosenm Ainsworth) or by hanging (Willst, Patrick, T. Lewis), and others view it as simply pointing to capital punishment, without indicating the instrument or method (Piscator, Lapide, Mercerus, "Speaker"s Commentary"). And the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. "The terror of approaching death would be aggravated to the poor man by the prospect of the indignity with which his body was to be treated" (Lawson).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This is the interpretation
This is the interpretation
"Here is what the dream means"
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The three baskets are three days
"The three baskets represent three days"
will lift up your head from you
Joseph also used the phrase "will lift up your head" when he spoke to the cupbearer in Genesis 40:13. Here it has a different meaning. Possible meanings are 1) "will lift up your head to put a rope around your neck" or 2) "will lift up your head to cut it off."
flesh
Here "flesh" literally means the soft tissue on a person's body.
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Pharaoh
flesh
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