en_tn/gen/40/18.md

# This is the interpretation

"Here is what the dream means"

# The three baskets are three days

"The three baskets represent three days"

# will lift up your head from you

Joseph also used the phrase "will lift up your head" when he spoke to the cupbearer in [Genesis 40:13](./12.md). Here it has a different meaning. Possible meanings are 1) "will lift up your head to put a rope around your neck" or 2) "will lift up your head to cut it off."

# flesh

Here "flesh" literally means the soft tissue on a person's body.

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/josephot]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/pharaoh]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/flesh]]