> [[genesis-38|← Previous]] | [[genesis-00|TOC]] | [[genesis-40|Next →]] --- # Genesis, Chapter 39 **Joseph’s Temptation.** 1 When Joseph was taken down to Egypt, an Egyptian, Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and his chief steward, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there. ^genesis-39-1 2 The LORD was with Joseph and he enjoyed great success and was assigned to the household of his Egyptian master. ^genesis-39-2 3 When his master saw that the LORD was with him and brought him success in whatever he did, ^genesis-39-3 4 he favored Joseph and made him his personal attendant; he put him in charge of his household and entrusted to him all his possessions. ^genesis-39-4 5 From the moment that he put him in charge of his household and all his possessions, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the LORD’s blessing was on everything he owned, both inside the house and out. ^genesis-39-5 6 Having left everything he owned in Joseph’s charge, he gave no thought, with Joseph there, to anything but the food he ate. ^genesis-39-6 Now Joseph was well-built and handsome. 7 After a time, his master’s wife looked at him with longing and said, “Lie with me.” ^genesis-39-7 8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, as long as I am here, my master does not give a thought to anything in the house, but has entrusted to me all he owns. ^genesis-39-8 9 He has no more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld from me nothing but you, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great wrong and sin against God?” ^genesis-39-9 10 Although she spoke to him day after day, he would not agree to lie with her, or even be near her. ^genesis-39-10 11 One such day, when Joseph came into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were then in the house, ^genesis-39-11 12 she laid hold of him by his cloak, saying, “Lie with me!” But leaving the cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside. ^genesis-39-12 13 When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand as he escaped outside, ^genesis-39-13 14 she cried out to her household servants and told them, “Look! My husband has brought us a Hebrew man to mock us! He came in here to lie with me, but I cried out loudly. ^genesis-39-14 15 When he heard me scream, he left his cloak beside me and escaped and ran outside.” ^genesis-39-15 16 She kept the cloak with her until his master came home. ^genesis-39-16 17 Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave whom you brought us came to me to amuse himself at my expense. ^genesis-39-17 18 But when I screamed, he left his cloak beside me and escaped outside.” ^genesis-39-18 19 When the master heard his wife’s story in which she reported, “Thus and so your servant did to me,” he became enraged. ^genesis-39-19 20 Joseph’s master seized him and put him into the jail where the king’s prisoners were confined. And there he sat, in jail. ^genesis-39-20 21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him kindness by making the chief jailer well-disposed toward him. ^genesis-39-21 22 The chief jailer put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners in the jail. Everything that had to be done there, he was the one to do it. ^genesis-39-22 23 The chief jailer did not have to look after anything that was in Joseph’s charge, since the LORD was with him and was bringing success to whatever he was doing. ^genesis-39-23 a. (39:2) [1 Sm 3:19]; [10:7]; [18:14]; [2 Sm 5:10]; [[2-kings-18|2 Kgs 18]]:7; ([[acts-of-the-apostles-07|Acts 7]]:9]. b. (39:4) [Dn 1:9]. c. (39:10) [1 Mc 2:53]. d. (39:20) [Ps 105:18]. e. (39:21) ([[acts-of-the-apostles-07|Acts 7]]:9] – [10].. --- ## Navigation [[genesis-08|[← Previous]]] · [[genesis-10|[Next →]]] --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[genesis-38|← Previous]] | [[genesis-00|TOC]] | [[genesis-40|Next →]]