Genesis 40:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Gen 40:12 : 12 “This is its meaning,” Joseph said to him.“The three branches represent three days.
  • Gen 41:26 : 26 The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.
  • 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
  • 1 Cor 11:24 : 24 and after he had given thanks he broke it and said,“This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

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  • Gen 40:8-13
    6 verses
    87%

    8They told him,“We both had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded,“Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me.”

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

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

    11Now 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.

    13In 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.

  • Gen 40:15-17
    3 verses
    85%

    15for 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.”

    16When 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.

    17In 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.”

  • Gen 40:19-22
    4 verses
    84%

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

    20On 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.

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

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

  • Gen 42:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17He imprisoned them all for three days.

    18On the third day Joseph said to them,“Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

  • Gen 40:5
    73%

    5Both 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 41:11-13
    3 verses
    72%

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

    12Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.

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

  • Gen 41:15-16
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    71%

    15Pharaoh 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.”

    16Joseph replied to Pharaoh,“It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”

  • Gen 41:25
    70%

    25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh,“Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

  • Gen 40:1
    70%

    1The 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.

  • Gen 50:3
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    3They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

  • Gen 37:6
    69%

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

  • Gen 40:3
    69%

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