Genesis 39
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Genesis 39:7-12

7Then after a time his master’s wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, “Lie with me.”

8But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me in the house, my master does not concern himself with anything; he has put everything that he owns in my charge.

9He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God [and your husband]?”

10And so it was that she spoke to Joseph [persistently] day after day, but he did not listen to her [plea] to lie beside her or be with her.

11Then it happened one day that Joseph went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the men of the household was there in the house.

12She caught Joseph by his [outer] robe, saying, “Lie with me!” But he left his robe in her hand and ran, and got outside [the house].

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