39:1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there. |
39:2 The LORD was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. |
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. |
39:4 So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal servant; and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he owned he put in his charge. |
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. |
39:6 So he left everything he owned in Joseph's charge; and with him {there} he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. |
39:7 It came about after these events that his master's wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me." |
39:8 But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, with me {here,} my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my charge. |
39:9 "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?" |
39:10 As she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie beside her {or} be with her. |
39:11 Now it happened one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the household was there inside. |
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." |
39:13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside, |
39:14 she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to make sport of us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I screamed. |
39:15 "When he heard that I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside." |
39:16 So she left his garment beside her until his master came home. |
39:17 Then she spoke to him with these words, "The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sport of me; |
39:18 and as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside." |
39:19 Now when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me, his anger burned." |
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. |
39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph and extended kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer. |
39:22 The chief jailer committed to Joseph's charge all the prisoners who were in the jail; so that whatever was done there, he was responsible {for it.} |
39:23 The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's charge because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made to prosper. |