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Genesis 40:18
18Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets: they are three days.
Genesis 40:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
- New International Version (NIV)“This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So Joseph answered and said, “This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.
Context of Genesis 40:18
16When the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream. Expectantly, there were three baskets of white bread on my head. 17In the top basket was food for Pharaoh—all kinds of baked goods. But the birds were eating them from the basket on my head.” Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets: they are three days. 19In another three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—off of you—and will hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat your flesh off of you.” 20Then it happened on the third day—Pharaoh’s birthday—that he held a banquet for all his servants. He lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.
Read all of Genesis 40Genesis 40:18 word by word
וַיַּ֤עַן יוֹסֵף֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר זֶ֖ה פִּתְרֹנ֑וֹ שְׁלֹ֙שֶׁת֙ הַסַּלִּ֔ים שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים הֵֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Genesis 40:18
- Genesis 40:12“This is its interpretation,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches: they are three days.
- Genesis 41:26The seven good cows: they are seven years. Also the seven ears of corn: they’re seven years. It is one dream.
- 1 Corinthians 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink—for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the Rock was Messiah.
- 1 Corinthians 11:24and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you. Do this in memory of Me.”
Commentaries on Genesis 40:18
- 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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