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.