Verse 10
Genesis 39:10
New Living Translation
10
She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out of her way as much as possible.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְהִ֕י כְּ/דַבְּרָ֥/הּ אֶל יוֹסֵ֖ף י֣וֹם י֑וֹם וְ/לֹא שָׁמַ֥ע אֵלֶ֛י/הָ לִ/שְׁכַּ֥ב אֶצְלָ֖/הּ לִ/הְי֥וֹת עִמָּֽ/הּ
English Translation
And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day after day, that he did not listen to her, to lie beside her, to be with her.
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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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3
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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8
But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire househol...
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9
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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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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19
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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