창세기39장

Joseph and Potiphar's wife

39. Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyption who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the caption of the guard, brought him from the Ishemaelites who had taken hom there. The Lord was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyption master. When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success  in everything he did, Joseph found faver in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyption because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Pontiphar had, both in the house and in the field. So he left in Joseph's care everything he had; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself anything except the food he ate. 

  Now Joseph was well-built and handsome and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, "Come to bed with me!" But he refused. "With me in charge," he told her, 'my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How than could I do such a wicked thing and sin aganist God? And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. 

  One day hw went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. She caught him by his cloak and said, "Come to bed with me!" But he left hus cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. When he saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, She called her household servants. "Look," she said to them, "this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! he came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. When he heard me screame for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."

  She kept his cloak beside her until his mster came home. Then she told him this story: "That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me, But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house." When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he burned with anger. Joseph's master took him and put him in the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. 

  But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him; He showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison wadern. So the wadern paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.