After some time[a] his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.[b] No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 39:7 Lit And after these things
  2. Genesis 39:8 Lit owns in my hand

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