Genesis:39

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* Joseph had been taken to Egypt . Potiphar , one of Pharaoh ’s Egyptian officials and captain of the guard , bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there . * Jehovah was with Joseph . Joseph became a successful man . He worked in the house of his Egyptian master . * Joseph ’s master saw that Jehovah was with him . Jehovah made him succeed in everything he did . * Potiphar was pleased with him and made him his personal servant . He put him in charge of his house and everything he owned . * Jehovah blessed the Egyptian ’s household and everything he had in his house and in his fields because of Joseph . * Potiphar turned over everything he had to the care of Joseph . He did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate . Joseph was well built and good-looking . * Soon his master ’s wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed with her . * He refused , and said to her : »My master does not have to concern himself with anything in the house , because I am here . He has put me in charge of everything he has . * »No one in this house is greater than I . He has kept nothing back from me except you . You are his wife . How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God ?« * She kept asking Joseph day after day . He refused to go to bed with her or be with her . * One day he went into the house to do his work . None of the household servants were there . * She grabbed him by his coat and said : »Come to bed with me !« But he ran outside and left his coat in her hand . * When she realized that he had gone but had left his coat behind , * she called her household servants and said to them : »Look ! My husband brought this Hebrew here to fool around with us . He came in and tried to go to bed with me . I screamed as loud as I could . * »When he heard me scream , he ran out of the house , leaving his coat with me .« * Potiphar ’s wife kept Joseph ’s coat until her husband came home . * She said : »That Hebrew slave of yours tried to rape me ! * »When I screamed for help , he left his coat and ran out of the house .« * Potiphar became very angry * and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king ’s prisoners were kept . While Joseph was in prison , * Jehovah helped him and was good to him . He even made the jailer like Joseph so much that * he put him in charge of the other prisoners and of everything that was done in the jail . * The jailer did not worry about anything , because Jehovah was with Joseph and made him successful in all that he did .

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