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


In Context

15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.|

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, |I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

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

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

19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.|

20 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

Genesis 40:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:18And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

40:18"This is what it means," Joseph said. "The three baskets are three days.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

40:18Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets are yet three days:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

40:18And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:18And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets are three days.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

40:18And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:18And Joseph answered, and said, This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

40:18And Joseph answereth and saith, 'This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:18And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days: