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Genesis 40:17

Pharaoh

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.

In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

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

19 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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BSB
In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
KJV
And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
WEB
In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
ASV
and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
DARBY
And in the uppermost basket there were all manner of victuals for Pharaoh that the baker makes, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.
BLB
And in the uppermost basket [were] all [kinds of] food, for Pharaoh, the work of a baker; and the birds were eating them out of the basket from upon my head.”
ÅB
Og i den øverste kurv var det allslags bakverk, sånt som Farao pleier å spise, og fuglene spiste det av kurven på mitt hode.
OTB
I den øverste kurven var det alle slags bakverk for farao, men fuglene spiste dem fra kurven på mitt hode."
B1930
Og i den øverste kurv var det allslags bakverk, sånt som Farao pleier å ete, og fuglene åt det av kurven på mitt hode.

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