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Genesis 40:19
19In three days, Pharaoh will lift off your head. He will hang you on a tree. Then birds will eat the meat off your body.’
Genesis 40:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”
Context of Genesis 40:19
17The top basket contained many different kinds of bread for Pharaoh. But birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.’ 18Joseph said, ‘This is what your dream means. The three baskets tell us about three days. In three days, Pharaoh will lift off your head. He will hang you on a tree. Then birds will eat the meat off your body.’ 20Three days later, it was Pharaoh's birthday. He gave a feast for all his officers. He lifted up the head of the cupbearer and he lifted off the head of the baker! He brought them both out of the prison so that all his officers could see. 21Pharaoh caused the cupbearer to be his own cupbearer again. As a result, the cupbearer put Pharaoh's cup into his hand again, as he did before.
Read all of Genesis 40Genesis 40:19 word by word
בְּע֣וֹד׀ שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֗ים יִשָּׂ֨א פַרְעֹ֤ה אֶת־רֹֽאשְׁךָ֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יךָ וְתָלָ֥ה אוֹתְךָ֖ עַל־עֵ֑ץ וְאָכַ֥ל הָע֛וֹף אֶת־בְּשָׂרְךָ֖ מֵעָלֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Yet within threeשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
- daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- shall Pharaohפַּרְעֹהpar‛ôh · PharaohH6547
- lift upנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: raiseH5375
- thy headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
- from off thee, and shall hangתָּלָהtâlâh · to hangH8518
- thee on a treeעֵץ‛êts · treeH6086
- and the birdsעוֹף‛ôph · birdH5775
- shall eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
- thy fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
Cross-references for Genesis 40:19
- Genesis 40:13In three days, Pharaoh will lift up your head and he will make you his officer again. You will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand, as you did before.
- Genesis 40:22But Pharaoh hanged the baker to kill him. So it all happened in the way that Joseph said it would happen.
- Genesis 41:13And everything happened as he had told us! You gave me my job as cupbearer again. But you hanged the baker to kill him.’
- Deuteronomy 21:22A person may do an evil thing so that you punish him with death. If you have hung his dead body on a tree,
- Joshua 8:29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree. He left his body there until evening. At sunset, Joshua told his men to cut the body down. They threw it on the ground outside the city's gate. They covered it with a heap of stones. Those stones are still there today.
- Joshua 10:26Then Joshua killed the five kings with his sword. He hung their bodies on five trees. They remained there until evening time.
- 2 Samuel 21:6So we want you to give us seven of his male descendants. Then we will kill them. We will hang their bodies at the place where people worship the Lord in Gibeah. That was Saul's town, the man that the Lord had chosen to be king.’ The king said, ‘I will give them to you.’
- Proverbs 30:17Punishment will come to anyone who insults his father, or who refuses to listen to his mother. Wild birds will pick out his eyes and vultures will eat his body.
- Galatians 3:13So God's Law shows that it is right for God to punish us. But Christ took that punishment away from us, because God punished him instead of us. It says in the Bible: ‘When people hang someone on a tree to kill him, it shows that God has cursed that person.’
- Genesis 40:17The top basket contained many different kinds of bread for Pharaoh. But birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.’
- 1 Samuel 17:44The Philistine said to David, ‘Come nearer to me. I will feed the birds and the wild animals with your dead body.’
- 2 Samuel 21:10Aiah's daughter, Rizpah, put sackcloth on a rock and she sat on it. She stayed there to watch her sons' bodies, from the harvest time until the heavy rain came. During that time, she stopped the birds from eating the bodies in the daytime. At night, she kept the wild animals away.
- Ezekiel 39:4You will fall to the ground on Israel's mountains. You, your soldiers and the people who are with you will all die there. Vultures and wild animals will eat your dead bodies.
- Acts 20:27I have told you everything that God wants you to know.
Commentaries on Genesis 40:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Lift up thy head from off thee - Thus we find that beheading, hanging, and gibbeting, were modes of punishment among the ancient Egyptians; but the criminal was beheaded before he was hanged, and then either hanged on hooks, or by the hands. See Lamentations 5:12.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-23Verses 1-23 - Joseph in Prison An uncomplaining patience and an unhesitating hopefulness keep the breast of Joseph in calm tranquillity. There is a God above, and that God is with him. His soul swerves not from this feeling. Meanwhile, new and distinguished prisoners are introduced into his place of confinement. Genesis 40:1-4 The chief butler and chief baker, high officials in Pharaoh‘s court, come under the displeasure of their sovereign. “In the house…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-19Joseph listened to the dreams and gave their interpretations. These dreams were not trivial. They were serious warnings from God about what everyone would soon face. These two dreams also prepare for Pharaoh’s two dreams, which reveal the coming seasons of life and death that the nation would soon experience.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 18-1918-19. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Genesis 40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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