29 Heb “Pharaoh will lift up your head from upon you.” Joseph repeats the same expression from the first interpretation (see v. 13), but with the added words “from upon you,” which allow the statement to have a more literal and ominous meaning—the baker will be decapitated.

In other versions

In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”

In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from off you—and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body.”

Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.”

In three days Pharaoh will lift your head from you and hang you on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

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