Genesis 39
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Genesis 39:9-19

9He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"

10And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.

11But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,

12she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.

13And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,

14she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.

15And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."

16Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,

17and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.

18But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house."

19As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.

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