Genesis 39
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Genesis 39:14-20

14she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running. “Look!” she said. “My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to make fools of us! He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed.

15When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.”

16She kept the cloak with her until her husband came home.

17Then she told him her story. “That Hebrew slave you’ve brought into our house tried to come in and fool around with me,” she said.

18“But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his cloak with me!”

19Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife’s story about how Joseph had treated her.

20So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained.

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