17In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."


In Context

14 But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.

15 For I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon."

16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, "I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.

17 In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."

18 "This is what it means," Joseph said. "The three baskets are three days.

19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat away your flesh."

Genesis 40:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:17And in the uppermost basket [there was] of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

40:17And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

40:17and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17And in the uppermost basket there were all manner of victuals for Pharaoh that the baker makes, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

40:17and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bake-meats for Pharaoh; and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17and in the uppermost basket are of all kinds of Pharaoh's food, work of a baker; and the birds are eating them out of the basket, from off my head.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:17And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket on my head.