Verse-Reference
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 Gen 39:1 |
Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him [fn]from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there. |
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Gen 39:2 |
The LORD was with Joseph, so he became a [fn]successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. |
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Gen 39:3 |
Now his master saw that the LORD was with him and how the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hand. |
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Gen 39:4 |
So Joseph found favor in his sight and [fn]became his personal servant; and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he owned he put in his [fn]charge. |
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Gen 39:5 |
It came about that from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house on account of Joseph; thus the LORD'S blessing was upon all that he owned, in the house and in the field. |
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Gen 39:6 |
So he left everything he owned in Joseph's [fn]charge; and with him there he did not [fn]concern himself with anything except the [fn]food which he [fn]ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. |
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Gen 39:7 |
It came about after these events that his master's wife [fn]looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me." |
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Gen 39:8 |
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, with me here, my master [fn]does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my [fn]charge. |
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Gen 39:9 |
" [fn]There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?" |
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Gen 39:10 |
As she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her. |
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Gen 39:11 |
Now it happened [fn]one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the household was there inside. |
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Gen 39:12 |
She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went outside. |
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Gen 39:13 |
[fn]When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside, |
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Gen 39:14 |
she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought in a [fn]Hebrew to us to make sport of us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I [fn]screamed. |
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Gen 39:15 |
"When he heard that I raised my voice and [fn]screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside." |
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Gen 39:16 |
So she [fn]left his garment beside her until his master came home. |
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Gen 39:17 |
Then she spoke to him [fn]with these words, " [fn]The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sport of me; |
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Gen 39:18 |
and as I raised my voice and [fn]screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside." |
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Gen 39:19 |
Now when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, " [fn]This is what your slave did to me," his anger burned. |
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Gen 39:20 |
So Joseph's master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king's prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail. |
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Gen 39:21 |
But the LORD was with Joseph and extended kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer. |
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Gen 39:22 |
The chief jailer committed to Joseph's [fn]charge all the prisoners who were in the jail; so that whatever was done there, he was [fn]responsible for it. |
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Gen 39:23 |
The chief jailer did not supervise anything under [fn]Joseph's charge because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made to prosper. |
NASB Footnotes:
- (39:1) Literally: from the hand of
- (39:2) Or, prosperous
- (39:4) Or, ministered to him
- (39:4) Literally: hand
- (39:6) Literally: hand
- (39:6) Literally: know
- (39:6) Literally: bread
- (39:6) Or, used to eat
- (39:7) Literally: lifted up her eyes at
- (39:8) Literally: does not know what is in the house
- (39:8) Literally: hand
- (39:9) Or, He is not greater
- (39:11) Literally: about this day
- (39:13) Literally: And it came about when
- (39:14) Literally: Hebrew man
- (39:14) Literally: called with a great voice
- (39:15) Literally: called out
- (39:16) Literally: let...lie beside
- (39:17) Literally: according to
- (39:17) Literally: saying, ``The
- (39:18) Literally: called out
- (39:19) Literally: According to these things your slave
- (39:22) Literally: hand
- (39:22) Literally: the doer
- (39:23) Literally: his hand
