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39:1  When Joseph was taken down to Egypt, an Egyptian, Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and his chief steward, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.
39:2  The Lord was with Joseph and he enjoyed great success and was assigned to the household of his Egyptian master.
39:3  When his master saw that the Lord was with him and brought him success in whatever he did,
39:4  he favored Joseph and made him his personal attendant; he put him in charge of his household and entrusted to him all his possessions.
39:5  From the moment that he put him in charge of his household and all his possessions, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the Lord’s blessing was on everything he owned, both inside the house and out.
39:6  Having left everything he owned in Joseph’s charge, he gave no thought, with Joseph there, to anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.
39:7  After a time, his master’s wife looked at him with longing and said, “Lie with me.”
39:8  But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, as long as I am here, my master does not give a thought to anything in the house, but has entrusted to me all he owns.
39:9  He has no more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld from me nothing but you, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great wrong and sin against God?”
39:10  Although she spoke to him day after day, he would not agree to lie with her, or even be near her.
39:11  One such day, when Joseph came into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were then in the house,
39:12  she laid hold of him by his cloak, saying, “Lie with me!” But leaving the cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
39:13  When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand as he escaped outside,
39:14  she cried out to her household servants and told them, “Look! My husband has brought us a Hebrew man to mock us! He came in here to lie with me, but I cried out loudly.
39:15  When he heard me scream, he left his cloak beside me and escaped and ran outside.”
39:16  She kept the cloak with her until his master came home.
39:17  Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave whom you brought us came to me to amuse himself at my expense.
39:18  But when I screamed, he left his cloak beside me and escaped outside.”
39:19  When the master heard his wife’s story in which she reported, “Thus and so your servant did to me,” he became enraged.
39:20  Joseph’s master seized him and put him into the jail where the king’s prisoners were confined. And there he sat, in jail.
39:21  But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed him kindness by making the chief jailer well-disposed toward him.
39:22  The chief jailer put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners in the jail. Everything that had to be done there, he was the one to do it.
39:23  The chief jailer did not have to look after anything that was in Joseph’s charge, since the Lord was with him and was bringing success to whatever he was doing.