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Genesis 40:16Gen.40.16

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets on my head:

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Le chef des panetiers, voyant que Joseph avait donné une explication favorable, dit: Voici, il y avait aussi, dans mon songe, trois corbeilles de pain blanc sur ma tête.

KJV

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets on my head:

Patristic reading

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  • Philo Judaeus

    De Somniis (lib. i-ii)

    ὸν οἴνου φυτόν, ἄμπελον, ὁ δ’ ἐπὶ κανῶν διακειμένους ἐκκεκαθαρμένους ἄρτους καὶ κανηφοροῦντα ἑαυτόν (Gen. 40, 16. 17). ἁρμόττον δὲ ἂν εἴη πρότερον τὸ πρότερον ἐξετάζειν ὄναρ, ἔστι δὲ τοιόνδε· „ἐν τῷ ὕπνῳ μου ἦν ἄμπελος ἐναντίον μου· ἐν δὲ τῇ ἀμπέλῳ τρεῖς πυθμένες καὶ αὐτὴ θάλλουσ…
  • Philo Judaeus

    De Somniis (lib. i-ii)

    conicio) τοῦτον conicio 28 Θεασόμεθα Mang.: θεασώμεθα Α κανᾶ χονδριτῶν αἴρειν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς μου“ (Gen. 40, 16). κεφαλὴν μὲν τοίνυν ἀλληγοροῦντές φαμεν εἶναι ψυχῆς τὸν ἡγεμόνα νοῦν, ἐπικεῖσθαι δὲ τούτῳ πάντα· καὶ γὰρ ἐξεφώνησέ ποτε ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ· „ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἐγένετο ταῦτα πάντα“ (Gen.…

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