GENESIS Chapter 39
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39:1 Now the Ishmaelites had taken Joseph to Egypt and sold him to
Potiphar, one of the king's officers, who was the captain of the palace guard. |
39:2
The LORD
was with Joseph and made him successful. He lived in the house of his
Egyptian master, |
39:3 who saw that
the LORD was with Joseph and had made him successful in everything he did. |
39:4 Potiphar was
pleased with him and made him his personal servant; so he put him in charge
of his house and everything he owned. |
39:5 From then on,
because of Joseph the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian and
everything that he had in his house and in his fields. |
39:6 Potiphar
turned over everything he had to the care of Joseph and did not concern
himself with anything except the food he ate. Joseph was well-built and
good-looking, |
39:7 and after a
while his master's wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed
with her. |
39:8 He refused and
said to her, "Look, my master does not have to concern himself with
anything in the house, because I am here. He has put me in charge of
everything he has. |
39:9 I have as much authority in this house as he has, and he
has not kept back anything from me except you. How then could I do such an
immoral thing and sin against God?" |
39:10 Although she
asked Joseph day after day, he would not go to bed with her. |
39:11 But one day
when Joseph went into the house to do his work, none of the house servants
was there. |
39:12 She caught him
by his robe and said, "Come to bed with me." But he escaped and ran
outside, leaving his robe in her hand. |
39:13 When she saw
that he had left his robe and had run out of the house, |
39:14 she called to
her house servants and said, "Look at this! This Hebrew that my husband
brought to the house is insulting us. He came into my room and tried to rape
me, but I screamed as loud as I could. |
39:15 When he heard
me scream, he ran outside, leaving his robe beside me." |
39:16 She kept his
robe with her until Joseph's master came home. |
39:17 Then she told
him the same story: "That Hebrew slave that you brought here came into
my room and insulted me. |
39:18 But when I
screamed, he ran outside, leaving his robe beside me." |
39:19 Joseph's
master was furious |
39:20 and had Joseph
arrested and put in the prison where the king's prisoners were kept, and
there he stayed. |
39:21
But the LORD
was with Joseph and blessed him, so that the jailer was pleased with him. |
39:22 He put Joseph
in charge of all the other prisoners and made him responsible for everything
that was done in the prison. |
39:23 The jailer did
not have to look after anything for which Joseph was responsible, because the
LORD was with Joseph and made him succeed in everything he did. |
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