Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
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- KJV And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
- BSB Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.
- NKJV So Joseph answered and said, “This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.
- NASB Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;
- NLT “This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.
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Cross-references · 4
- Gen 40:12Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
- 1 Cor 11:24When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
- 1 Cor 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
- Gen 41:26The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
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