Genesis 39
1 Joseph was taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
2 The LORD was with Joseph, and he became successful. He lived in the house of his Egyptian master.
3 His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made everything he did prosper.
4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. His master put him in charge of his household and placed everything he owned in his hands.
5 From the time his master put him in charge of his household and everything he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household because of Joseph. The LORD’s blessing rested on everything he owned, both in the house and in the field.
6 He left everything he owned in Joseph’s hands, and with Joseph at his side, he took care of nothing except the food he ate. Joseph was handsome in build and appearance.
7 After these things, his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”
8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me here, my master takes no care of anything in the house. He has placed everything he owns in my hands.
9 No one in this house is greater than I am, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
10 She spoke to Joseph day after day, but he would not listen to her or lie beside her or be with her.
11 One day, he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household men was inside.
12 She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand, ran away, and went outside.
13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and run outside,
14 she called the men of her household and said to them, “Look, he has brought us a Hebrew to make sport of us. He came to me to lie with me, but I cried out loudly.
15 When he heard me raise my voice and cry out, he left his garment beside me, ran away, and went outside.”
16 She kept his garment beside her until his master came home.
17 Then she spoke to him in these terms: “The Hebrew slave you brought to us came to me to make sport of me.
18 But when I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and ran outside.”
19 When his master heard his wife’s words, as she said to him, “This is how your slave treated me,” he became furious.
20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. And there he remained in prison.
21 But the LORD was with Joseph, showed him his steadfast love, and gave him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
22 The prison warden put all the prisoners in the prison in Joseph’s hands, and he was the one who took care of everything done there.
23 The prison warden took no care of anything that was in Joseph’s hands, because the LORD was with him, and the LORD made everything he did prosper.
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