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Genesis 39
1 Now Joseph had been taken down into Egypt. Potiphar the Egyptian, one of Pharaoh’s officials and commander of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and everything went well with him. He lodged in the house of his Egyptian master,
3 and when his master saw how Yahweh was with him and how Yahweh made everything succeed that he turned his hand to,
4 he was pleased with Joseph and made him his personal attendant; and his master put him in charge of his household, entrusting everything to him.
5 And from the time he put him in charge of his household and all his possessions, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s household out of consideration for Joseph; Yahweh’s blessing extended to all his possessions, both household and estate.
6 So he left Joseph to handle all his possessions, and with him at hand, concerned himself with nothing beyond the food he ate.
Now Joseph was well built and handsome,
7 and it happened some time that his master’s wife looked desirously at him and said, ‘sleep with me’.
8 But he refused and answered his master’s wife, ‘Because of me, my master does not concern himself with what happens in the house; he has handed all his possessions to me.
9 He is no more master in this house than I am; he has withheld nothing from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How could I do anything so wicked, and sin against God?’
10 Although she spoke to Joseph day after day he would not agree to sleep with her and surrender to her.
11 But one day Joseph in the course of his duties came to the house, and there was not a servant there in doors.
12 The woman caught hold of him by his tunic and said, ‘Sleep with me’. But he left the tunic in her hand and ran out of the house.
13 Seeing he had left the tunic in her hand and left the house,
14 she called her servants and said to them, ‘Look at this! He has brought us a Hebrew to insult us. He came to me to sleep with me, but I screamed,
15 and when he heard me scream and shout he left his tunic beside me and ran out of the house.’
16 She put the tunic down by her side until the master came home.
17 Then she told him the same tale, ‘The Hebrew slave you bought us came to insult me.
18 But when I screamed and called out he left his garment by my side and made his escape.’
19 When the master heard his wife say, ‘This is how your slave treated me’, he was furious.
20 Joseph’s master had him arrested and committed to the gaol where the king’s prisoners were kept.
And there in gaol he stayed.
21 But Yahweh was with Joseph. He was kind to him and made him popular with the chief gaoler.
22 The chief gaoler put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners in the goal, making him responsible for everything done there.
23 The chief gaoler did not need to interfere with Joseph’s administration, for Yahweh was with him, and Yahweh made everything he undertook successful.