Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

It came about after these events that his master’s wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.”

King James Version

And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Now Joseph was well built and good looking. That's why, sometime later, Joseph's master's wife looked straight at Joseph and propositioned him: "Come on! Let's have a little sex!"

A Conservative Version

And it came to pass, after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lay with me.

American Standard Version

And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

Amplified

Then after a time his master’s wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, “Lie with me.”

Bible in Basic English

And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.

Darby Translation

And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me!

Julia Smith Translation

And it will be after these words, and his lord's wife will lift up her eyes to Joseph, and she will say, Lie with me.

King James 2000

And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And it happened [that] after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."

Modern King James verseion

And after these things it happened that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph. And she said, Lie with me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And it fortuned, after this, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, "Come lie with me."

NET Bible

Soon after these things, his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, "Have sex with me."

New Heart English Bible

It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."

The Emphasized Bible

And it came to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifted up her eyes unto Joseph, - and she said - Come! lie with me.

Webster

And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph: and she said, Lie with me.

World English Bible

It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."

Youngs Literal Translation

And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, 'Lie with me;'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And it came to pass after
אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

יוסף 
Yowceph 
Usage: 213

and she said

Usage: 0

Lie
שׁכב 
Shakab 
Usage: 210

References

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Smith

Context Readings

Joseph In Potiphar's House

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. 7 It came about after these events that his master’s wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.” 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.



Cross References

2 Samuel 13:11

When she brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”

Genesis 6:2

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes;
How then could I gaze at a virgin?

Psalm 119:37

Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity,
And revive me in Your ways.

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Proverbs 5:9

Or you will give your vigor to others
And your years to the cruel one;

Proverbs 7:13

So she seizes him and kisses him
And with a brazen face she says to him:

Proverbs 7:15-18

“Therefore I have come out to meet you,
To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.

Jeremiah 3:3

“Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you had a harlot’s forehead;
You refused to be ashamed.

Ezekiel 16:25

You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

Ezekiel 16:32

You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

Ezekiel 16:34

Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different.”

Ezekiel 23:5-6

“Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,

Ezekiel 23:12-16

She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

Matthew 5:28

but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

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