Genesis 40:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.

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  • Gen 40:22 : 22 But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said.
  • Gen 41:13 : 13 And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.
  • Deut 21:22-23 : 22 If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree; 23 Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.
  • Josh 8:29 : 29 And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.
  • Josh 10:26 : 26 Then Joshua had them put to death, hanging them on five trees, where they were till evening.
  • 1 Sam 17:44 : 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come here to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.
  • 1 Sam 17:46 : 46 This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;
  • 2 Sam 21:6 : 6 Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.
  • 2 Sam 21:10 : 10 And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
  • Ezek 39:4 : 4 On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
  • Gen 40:13 : 13 After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant.
  • Gen 40:17 : 17 And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head.

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  • Gen 40:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

    17And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head.

    18Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;

  • Gen 40:9-14
    6 verses
    80%

    9Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me;

    10And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

    11And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and crushing them into Pharaoh's cup, gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

    12Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

    13After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant.

    14But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:

  • Gen 40:20-23
    4 verses
    79%

    20Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.

    21And he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

    22But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said.

    23But the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a thought to him.

  • Gen 41:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.

    14Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.

  • Deut 28:26
    71%

    26Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

  • Gen 42:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17So he put them in prison for three days.

    18And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

  • Gen 40:1-3
    3 verses
    69%

    1Now after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's orders;

    2And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;

    3And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.

  • Gen 41:10
    68%

    10Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and had put me in prison in the house of the captain of the army, together with the chief bread-maker;

  • Deut 21:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

    23Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

  • Jer 34:20
    67%

    20Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

  • Ezek 39:4
    67%

    4On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.

  • Gen 41:40-41
    2 verses
    67%

    40You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.

    41And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 50:3
    67%

    3And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

  • Ezek 31:18
    67%

    18Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

  • Jer 7:33
    67%

    33And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

  • Jer 42:16-17
    2 verses
    67%

    16Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.

    17Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.

  • Ezek 29:5
    67%

    5And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.

  • Gen 40:5
    66%

    5And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

  • Ps 79:2
    66%

    2They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

  • Ezek 32:4
    66%

    4And I will let you be stretched on the land; I will send you out violently into the open field; I will let all the birds of heaven come to rest on you and will make the beasts of all the earth full of you.

  • Josh 10:26
    66%

    26Then Joshua had them put to death, hanging them on five trees, where they were till evening.