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Genesis 40:13

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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.

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.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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.
KJV
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
WEB
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
ASV
within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thine office: and thou shalt give Pharaoh`s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
DARBY
In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head and restore thee to thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his cup-bearer.
BLB
Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put the cup of Pharaoh into his hand according to the former manner, when you were his cupbearer.
ÅB
Om tre dager skal Farao opphøye deg og sette deg i ditt embede igjen, og du skal rekke Farao begeret, som du gjorde før, da du var hans munnskjenk.
OTB
Innen tre dager vil farao løfte ditt hode og gjeninnsette deg i din stilling, og du skal sette faraos beger i hans hånd, slik du gjorde da du var hans munnskjenk.
B1930
Om tre dager skal Farao ophøie dig og sette dig i ditt embede igjen, og du skal rekke Farao begeret, som du gjorde før, da du var hans munnskjenk.

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Cross references

  • Psalms 3:3

    But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

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  • Jeremiah 52:31

    On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.

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  • 2 Kings 25:27

    On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.

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  • Genesis 7:4

    For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

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  • Genesis 40:19–22

    Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

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