Genesis 40:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head.”

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  • Gen 49:20 : 20 Asher’s food will be rich, and he will provide delicacies to royalty.

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  • Gen 40:15-16
    2 verses
    89%

    15 for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon.”

    16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph,“I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

  • Gen 40:18-22
    5 verses
    85%

    18 Joseph replied,“This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

    19 In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

    20 On the third day it was Pharaoh’s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He“lifted up” the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

    21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his former position so that he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand,

    22 but the chief baker he impaled, just as Joseph had predicted.

  • Gen 40:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 The Cupbearer and the Baker After these things happened, the cupbearer to the king of Egypt and the royal baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

    2 Pharaoh was enraged with his two officials, the cupbearer and the baker,

    3 so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

  • Gen 41:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh,“Today I recall my failures.

    10 Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards– me and the chief baker.

    11 We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

  • 5 Both of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream the same night. Each man’s dream had its own meaning.

  • Gen 40:9-13
    5 verses
    73%

    9 So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph:“In my dream, there was a vine in front of me.

    10 On the vine there were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

    11 Now Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, so I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

    12 “This is its meaning,” Joseph said to him.“The three branches represent three days.

    13 In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did before when you were cupbearer.

  • 17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,“In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

  • Gen 41:54-55
    2 verses
    70%

    54 Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

    55 When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt,“Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

  • 7 The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.

  • 13 It happened just as he had said to us– Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”

  • 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph,“I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”

  • 4 The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

  • 41 “See here,” Pharaoh said to Joseph,“I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt.”

  • Gen 41:35-36
    2 verses
    68%

    35 They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

    36 This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”

  • 24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”

  • 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for all their livestock.

  • Gen 47:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12 Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

    13 But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

  • 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.

  • 21 When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

  • 43 Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him,“Kneel down!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

  • 6 He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:

  • 36 the table, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;

  • 23 and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the LORD.