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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:

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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.
 
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