Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 40:18
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18, 19. Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation —The purport was that in three days his execution should be ordered. The language of Joseph describes minutely one form of capital punishment that prevailed in Egypt; namely, that the criminal was decapitated and then his headless body gibbeted on a tree by the highway till it was gradually devoured by the ravenous birds. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-20" class="com-number"
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