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Genesis 40:20
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18 So Joseph answered and said, a“This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.  
19 aWithin three days Pharaoh will lift1 off your head from you and bhang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”  
20 Now it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s abirthday, that he bmade a feast for all his servants; and he clifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.  
21 Then he arestored the chief butler to his butlership again, and bhe placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.  
22 But he ahanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.  
23 Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but aforgot him. 
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Genesis 40:20-22

it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday—This was a holiday season, celebrated at court with great magnificence and honored by a free pardon to prisoners. Accordingly, the issue happened to the butler and baker, as Joseph had foretold. Doubtless, he felt it painful to communicate such dismal tidings to the baker; but he could not help announcing what God had revealed to him; and it was for the honor of the true God that he should speak plainly.




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