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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Dans la corbeille la plus élevée il y avait pour Pharaon des mets de toute espèce, cuits au four; et les oiseaux les mangeaient dans la corbeille au-dessus de ma tête.
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.
Philo Judaeus
De Somniis (lib. i-ii)
ι συντυχίαι, πάντα πυρὸς τρόπον ἐπιδραμοῦνται καὶ ἀναφλέξουσι καὶ τῇ παμφάγῳ δυνάμει καταναλώσουσιν (Gen. 40, 17), ὡς μηδὲ λείψανον γοῦν ὑπολείπεσθαι πρὸς ἀπόλαυσιν τῷ κανηφοροῦντι, ὃς ἤλπισε τὰς εὑρέσεις καὶ τὰς ἐπινοίας αὑτοῦ μέχρι παντὸς αἰῶνος οἴσειν ἀναφαιρέτους ἐν βεβαίῳ. χ…
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