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Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, who was an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he lived in the household of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the Lord was with Joseph and that the Lord made everything he did successful, 4 Joseph found favour in his eyes and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and entrusted to his care everything he owned. 5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on all that he owned, in his house and in his fields. 6 So he left everything he owned in Joseph’s care, and he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.
Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 7 and after a while his master’s wife eyed off Joseph and said, “Come and lie with me.”
8 But he refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in his house; he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. 9 No one in this house is greater than I am. My master has not withheld anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” 10 And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.
11 One day when Joseph was in the house attending to his duties and none of the other household servants were around, 12 she grabbed him by his cloak and said, “Come and lie with me!” But he escaped from her grasp and fled from the house, while she was left standing there still holding his cloak.
13 When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run outside, 14 she called out to her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband has brought to us this Hebrew to make sport of us! He came in here to force himself on me, but I screamed as loud as I could! 15 When he heard me scream for help, he left his garment beside me and ran out of the house!”
16 She kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home. 17 Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought to us came to me to make sport of me,” 18 “but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
19 When his master heard the story his wife told him—“This is the way your slave treated me”—he was enraged. 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, in the area where the king’s prisoners were confined.
But while Joseph was there in the prison, 21 the Lord was with him. He showed Joseph kindness and granted him favour in the eyes of the prison warden. 22 The prison warden put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were held in the prison, and he was made responsible for everything that was done there. 23 The warden of the prison paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with Joseph; and the Lord made everything he did successful.