Thematic Bible
Genesis 39:1 (show verse)
Joseph had been taken to Egypt. Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's Egyptian officials and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
Genesis 39:2 (show verse)
Jehovah was with Joseph. Joseph became a successful man. He worked in the house of his Egyptian master.
Genesis 39:3 (show verse)
Joseph's master saw that Jehovah was with him. Jehovah made him succeed in everything he did.
Genesis 39:4 (show verse)
Potiphar was pleased with him and made him his personal servant. He put him in charge of his house and everything he owned.
Genesis 39:5 (show verse)
Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's household and everything he had in his house and in his fields because of Joseph.
Genesis 39:6 (show verse)
Potiphar turned over everything he had to the care of Joseph. He did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Joseph was well built and good-looking.
Genesis 39:7 (show verse)
Soon his master's wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed with her.
Genesis 39:8 (show verse)
He refused, and said to her: My master does not have to concern himself with anything in the house, because I am here. He has put me in charge of everything he has.
Genesis 39:9 (show verse)
No one in this house is greater than I. He has kept nothing back from me except you. You are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?
Genesis 39:10 (show verse)
She kept asking Joseph day after day. He refused to go to bed with her or be with her.
Genesis 39:11 (show verse)
One day he went into the house to do his work. None of the household servants were there.
Genesis 39:12 (show verse)
She grabbed him by his coat and said: Come to bed with me! But he ran outside and left his coat in her hand.
Genesis 39:13 (show verse)
When she realized that he had gone but had left his coat behind,
Genesis 39:14 (show verse)
she called her household servants and said to them: Look! My husband brought this Hebrew here to fool around with us. He came in and tried to go to bed with me. I screamed as loud as I could.
Genesis 39:15 (show verse)
When he heard me scream, he ran out of the house, leaving his coat with me.
Genesis 39:16 (show verse)
Potiphar's wife kept Joseph's coat until her husband came home.
Genesis 39:17 (show verse)
She said: That Hebrew slave of yours tried to rape me!
Genesis 39:18 (show verse)
When I screamed for help, he left his coat and ran out of the house.
Genesis 39:19 (show verse)
Potiphar became very angry
Genesis 39:20 (show verse)
and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king's prisoners were kept. While Joseph was in prison,
Genesis 39:21 (show verse)
Jehovah helped him and was good to him. He even made the jailer like Joseph so much that
Genesis 39:22 (show verse)
he put him in charge of the other prisoners and of everything that was done in the jail.
Genesis 39:23 (show verse)
The jailer did not worry about anything, because Jehovah was with Joseph and made him successful in all that he did.