Genesis 40:16-19

"When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my hand: and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days; within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee."

Of special interest is the opposite use of "lift up thy head" which we discussed under Genesis 40:13.

A great deal of uncertainty focuses upon the exact manner of the baker's execution, some supposing that he was first beheaded, and then impaled. And others taking the position that he was simply hanged. Since either method would answer perfectly to the tenor of Joseph's interpretation of the baker's dream, it cannot be a very important question. "The verb for hang (as used here) may then refer to the mode of execution, and not merely to the exposure of a decapitated corpse ... Hanging was not then unknown in Egypt."[16]

Dummelow commented that hanging is nowhere (else) mentioned in the Bible, except in the Book of Esther,[17] but this might well be an additional instance.