Genesis 40:17 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁷ and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And in the uppermost basket were some of all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds [of prey] were eating out of the basket on my head.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ In the basket on top there were baked goods for Pharaoh’s food, but birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ and in one basket, which was the highest, I carried all foods that are made by the art of baking, and the birds ate from it."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.

Genesis 40:17 Cross References

Genesis 40:16

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,

Genesis 40:18

And Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

Genesis 49:20

Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties.

1 Chronicles 12:20

As he went to Ziklag these men of Manasseh deserted to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jedia-el, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.