Baskets

Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.

And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.

And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

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.

• Symbolical
• Seven

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

• Women

Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. read more Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. show less

Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

• Righteous

Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

• Gold

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.