Genesis 40:18
New International Version
“This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.

New Living Translation
“This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.

English Standard Version
And Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.

Berean Standard Bible
Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

King James Bible
And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

New King James Version
So Joseph answered and said, “This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.

New American Standard Bible
Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

NASB 1995
Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

NASB 1977
Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

Amplified Bible
Joseph answered, “This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets represent three days;

Christian Standard Bible
“This is its interpretation,” Joseph replied. “The three baskets are three days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is its interpretation,” Joseph replied. “The three baskets are three days.

American Standard Version
And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yoseph answered and said to him, “This is the interpretation of your dream: three baskets are three days:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Joseph answered and said to him, This is the interpretation of it; The three baskets are three days.

Contemporary English Version
Joseph said: This is the meaning of your dream. The three baskets are three days,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets are yet three days:

English Revised Version
And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"This is what it means," Joseph replied. "The three baskets are three days.

Good News Translation
Joseph answered, "This is what it means: the three baskets are three days.

International Standard Version
Joseph replied, "This is what your dream means: The three baskets are also three days.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

Literal Standard Version
And Joseph answers and says, “This [is] its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

Majority Standard Bible
Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

New American Bible
Joseph said to him in reply: “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days;

NET Bible
Joseph replied, "This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

New Revised Standard Version
And Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

New Heart English Bible
Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joseph answered, and said, This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days:

World English Bible
Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joseph answereth and saith, 'This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Cupbearer and the Baker
17In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.” 18Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days. 19Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”…

Cross References
Genesis 40:17
In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."

Genesis 40:19
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body."


Treasury of Scripture

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

Genesis 40:12
And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

Genesis 41:26
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

1 Corinthians 10:4
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

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Genesis 40
1. The chief butler and baker of Pharaoh are also imprisoned.
5. Joseph interprets their dreams.
20. They are accomplished according to his interpretation.
23. The ingratitude of the butler, in forgetting Joseph.














Verses 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. Deuteronomy 21:22, 23; Joshua 10:26; 2 Samuel 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, Rosenmüller, 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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Joseph
יוֹסֵף֙ (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

replied,
וַיַּ֤עַן (way·ya·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

“This
זֶ֖ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

is the interpretation:
פִּתְרֹנ֑וֹ (piṯ·rō·nōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6623: Interpretation

The three
שְׁלֹ֙שֶׁת֙ (šə·lō·šeṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

baskets
הַסַּלִּ֔ים (has·sal·lîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5536: A willow twig, an osier, as woven into a, basket

are three
שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת (šə·lō·šeṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

days.
יָמִ֖ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day


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