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3 9 : J O S E P H
I M P R I S O N E D
CHAPTER 39:
Joseph’s Service With
Potiphar; His Purity And
Imprisonment
(39:1-13; cf. Gen. 39)
1 And Jacob dwelt in the land
of his father’s sojournings in
the land of Canaan. 2 These
are the generations of Jacob.
And Joseph was seventeen
Cf. Gn. 37:2 years old when they took him
down into the land of Egypt,
and Potiphar, an eunuch
Cf. 34:2
(note). of Pharaoh, the chief cook
bought him. 3 And he set
Joseph over all his house,
and the blessing of Yahuah
came upon the house of
the Egyptian on account of
Joseph, and Yahuah prospered
him in all that he did. 4 And
the Egyptian committed
everything into the hands
of Joseph; for he saw that
Yahuah was with him, and
that Yahuah prospered him in
all that he did. 5 And Joseph’s
appearance
was
comely
and very beautiful was his
appearance, and his master’s
wife lifted up her eyes and saw
Joseph, and she loved him,
and besought him to lie with
her. 6 But he did not surrender
his soul, and he remembered
Yahuah and the words which
Abraham
wrote. Jacob, his father, used to read
from amongst the words of
Cf. 20:4, 25:7
Abraham, that no man should
commit fornication with a
woman who hath a husband;
that for him the punishment
of death hath been ordained
in the heavens before the Most
High Elohim, and the sin will
be recorded against him in
the eternal books continually
before Yahuah. 7 And Joseph
remembered these words and
refused to lie with her. 8 And
she besought him for a year,
but he refused and would not
listen. 9 But she embraced him
and held him fast in the house
in order to force him to lie with
her, and closed the doors of
the house and held him fast;
but he left his garment in her
hands and broke through the
door and fled without from her
presence. 10 And the woman
saw that he would not lie with
her, and she calumniated him
in the presence of his lord,
saying: “Thy Hebrew servant,
whom thou lovest, sought to
force me so that he might lie
with me; and it came to pass
when I lifted up my voice that
he fled and left his garment in
my hands when I held him,
and he brake through the
door.” 11 And the Egyptian
saw the garment of Joseph
and the broken door, and
heard the words of his wife,
and cast Joseph into prison
into the place where the
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