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.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
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Cambridge Bible
bakemeats LXX ἔργον σιτοποιοῦ, Lat. cibos qui fiunt arte pistoria: as we say, "all kinds of confectionery." The bakemeats are only in the top basket. If the birds took them, he had nothing in the…