NET Bible
"Joseph replied,“This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days."
— Genesis 40:18, NET Bible
“And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days; ”
for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon.”
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph,“I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.
In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head.”
Joseph replied,“This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.
In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”
On the third day it was Pharaoh’s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He“lifted up” the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.
He restored the chief cupbearer to his former position so that he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand,