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Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
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A Grim Play on Words
Commentators unanimously highlight the chilling wordplay in Joseph's interpretation. The phrase "lift up thy head" was used for the butler to mean restoration. For the baker, the crucial addition of "from off thee" completely changes the meaning to beheading. This verbal precision, scholars note, underscores that the interpretation was a direct and specific revelation from God, not a human guess.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
An uncomplaining patience and an unhesitating hopefulness keep Joseph's heart in calm tranquility. There is a God above, and that God is with him. …
19th Century
Anglican
Shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee. —In Genesis 40:13 the lifting up of the butler’s head meant his elevation to his former rank…
16th Century
Protestant
Pharaoh shall lift up thy head from off thee. This phrase (in the original) is ambiguous without some addition and can be taken in a good …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head fromoff you: Order you to be beheaded; so the Targum of Jonath…
It was not so much the prison that made the butler and baker sad, but rather their dreams. God has more ways than one to sadden spirits. Joseph had…
