Genesis 39

¹Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt , and Potiphar , an officer of Pharaoh , the captain of the guard , an Egyptian , had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there .

²The Lord was with Joseph , and he became a successful man , and he was in the house of his Egyptian master .

³His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands .

⁴So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had .

⁵From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had , the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake ; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had , in house and field .

⁶So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge , and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate . Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance .

⁷And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said , Lie with me.

⁸But he refused and said to his master’s wife , Behold , because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house , and he has put everything that he has in my charge .

⁹He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife . How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God ?

¹⁰And as she spoke to Joseph day after day , he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.

¹¹But one day , when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house ,

¹²she caught him by his garment , saying , Lie with me. But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.

¹³And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,

¹⁴she called to the men of her household and said to them, See , he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice .

¹⁵And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out , he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.

¹⁶Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home ,

¹⁷and she told him the same story , saying , The Hebrew servant , whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.

¹⁸But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried , he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.

¹⁹As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, This is the way your servant treated me, his anger was kindled .

²⁰And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison , the place where the king’s prisoners were confined , and he was there in prison .

²¹But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison .

²²And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison . Whatever was done there , he was the one who did it.

²³The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge , because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did , the Lord made it succeed .