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Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 404

Genesis 40:17

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Genesis 40:17

Ver. 17. And in the uppermost basket [there was] of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh,.... All sorts of pastry, as tarts, pies, &c. Josephus {b} says, two of the baskets were full of bread, and the third had various sorts of food, such as is usually, prepared for kings:

and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head; all the three baskets were upon his head, but this seems to be the uppermost, which the birds could more easily come at; though if the baskets were full of holes, they might through them peck the bread with their bills.

{b} Antiqu. l. 2. c. 5. sect. 3.

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