Genesis 40:12 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 40:12

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

KJV

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ASV

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;

WEB

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

YLT

And Joseph saith to him, `This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days;

DBT

And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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11 verses on the floor

Judges 7:14
And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Genesis 41:12
And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
Genesis 40:18
And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
Genesis 41:25–26
And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Daniel 4:19–33
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.

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The visions that are for the comfort of God's saints are for a great while to come, and relate to things that are very far off, while the foresights of others, like this recorded there, look but three days before them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Nothing has hitherto met us in the record indicative of Joseph's feelings; but this earnest appeal reveals a sadness and impatient longing for release, which not all his piety and faith in God could dispel.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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