Genesis - 40:18



18 Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 40:18.

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And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets are yet three days:
And Joseph answereth and saith, 'This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;
Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;
Joseph responded: "This is the interpretation of the dream. The three baskets are the next three days,
Et respondit Joseph, et dixit, Haec est interpretatio ejus, Tria eanistra, tres dies sunt.

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And Joseph answered and said, (g) This [is] the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:
(g) He shows that the ministers of God should not conceal that, which God reveals to them.

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:
the three baskets are three days; signify three days.

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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