Verse 7
Genesis 39:7
New Living Translation
7
and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְהִ֗י אַחַר֙ הַ/דְּבָרִ֣ים הָ/אֵ֔לֶּה וַ/תִּשָּׂ֧א אֵֽשֶׁת אֲדֹנָ֛י/ו אֶת עֵינֶ֖י/הָ אֶל יוֹסֵ֑ף וַ/תֹּ֖אמֶר שִׁכְבָ֥/ה עִמִּֽ/י
English Translation
And it came to pass after these things that Potiphar's wife lifted her eyes to Joseph and said, "Lie with me."
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Chapter 39 Context
1
When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian...
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The LORD was with Joseph, so he succeeded in everything he did as he served in the home of his Egypt...
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Potiphar noticed this and realized that the LORD was with Joseph, giving him success in everything h...
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This pleased Potiphar, so he soon made Joseph his personal attendant. He put him in charge of his en...
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From the day Joseph was put in charge of his master’s household and property, the LORD began to bles...
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So Potiphar gave Joseph complete administrative responsibility over everything he owned. With Joseph...
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and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.
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But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire househol...
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No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you a...
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10
She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out...
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11
One day, however, no one else was around when he went in to do his work.
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She came and grabbed him by his cloak, demanding, “Come on, sleep with me!” Joseph tore himself away...
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When she saw that she was holding his cloak and he had fled,
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she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running. “Look!” she said. “My husband has bro...
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15
When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.”
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She kept the cloak with her until her husband came home.
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Then she told him her story. “That Hebrew slave you’ve brought into our house tried to come in and f...
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“But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his cloak with me!”
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Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife’s story about how Joseph had treated her.
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20
So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he r...
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But the LORD was with Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love. And the LORD made Josep...
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Before long, the warden put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and over everything that hap...
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The warden had no more worries, because Joseph took care of everything. The LORD was with him and ca...
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