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Joseph's Success in Egypt

¹ Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the royal guard, bought him from the ^(C1)Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.^2 (C1)The LORD was with Joseph, and he even though a slave became a successful and prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.³ Now his master ^(C1)saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD ^(C2)caused all that he did to prosper (succeed) in his hand. ^(VR1)4 So Joseph pleased Potiphar and ^(C1)found favor in his sight and he served him as his personal servant. He made Joseph overseer over his house, and he put ^(C2)all that he owned in Joseph's charge.⁵ It happened that from the time that he made Joseph overseer in his house and put him in charge over all that he owned, that the LORD ^(C1)blessed the Egyptian's house because of Joseph; so ^(C2)the LORD'S blessing was on everything that Potiphar owned, in the house and in the field.

⁶ So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph's charge; and with Joseph there he did not need to ^(F1)pay attention to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was ^(C1)handsome and attractive in form and appearance. ^(VR1)7 Then after a time ^(C1)his master's wife ^(F1)looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, "^(C2)Lie with me."⁸ But ^(C1)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.⁹ "^(C1)He 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 ^(C2)sin against God and your husband?"¹⁰ And 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.¹¹ Then 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.¹² She 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.¹³ When she saw that he had left his robe in her hand and had run outside,¹⁴ she called to the men of her household and said to them, "Look at this, your master has brought a Hebrew into the household to mock and insult us; he came to me to lie with me, and I screamed.¹⁵ "When he heard me screaming, he left his robe with me and ran outside the house."¹⁶ So she left Joseph's outer robe beside her until his master came home.¹⁷ Then she ^(C1)told her husband the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you brought among us, came to me to mock and insult me;¹⁸ then as soon as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his robe with me and ran outside the house."

Joseph Imprisoned

¹⁹ And when Joseph's master heard the words of his wife, saying, "This is the way your servant treated me," ^(C1)his anger burned.²⁰ So Joseph's master took him and ^(C1)put him in the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.²¹ But ^(C1)the LORD was with Joseph and extended lovingkindness to him, and ^(C2)gave him favor in the sight of the warden.²² The warden ^(C1)committed to Joseph's care (management) all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was ^(F1)in charge of it.^23 (C1)The warden paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's care because ^(C2)the LORD was with him; whatever Joseph did, ^(C3)the LORD made to prosper.