Bible verse

Genesis 40:12

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

Genesis 40:12 · BSB

Genesis 40:12 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 40.

8 “We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

9 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,

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

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

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

13 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

14 But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.

15 For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.

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Genesis 40:12 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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