Verse | Translation | Text |
Ge 40:18 | Strong Concordance | And Joseph [03130] answered [06030] and said [0559], This is the interpretation [06623] thereof: The three [07969] baskets [05536] are three [07969] days [03117]: |
King James | And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days: |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation--The purport was that in three days his execution should be ordered. The language of Joseph describes minutely one form of capital punishment that prevailed in Egypt; namely, that the criminal was decapitated and then his headless body gibbeted on a tree by the highway till it was gradually devoured by the ravenous birds. |