And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation. Speaking as an inspired interpreter, he told the butler that within three days he would be restored to all the honours and privileges of his office.
The three branches are three days. In all symbolical propositions the persons of the substantive verb-am, art, is, are-whether expressed or understood, as it is here, are the copulative, showing the relation between the type and the antitype. The three branches signity three days (Matthew 26:26; Luke 8:11).