Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 39:7-23 - New International Version (2024)

⁷and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”^(A)

⁸But he refused.^(B) “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.^{(C) 9}No one is greater in this house than I am.^(D) My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”^{(E) 10}And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused^(F) to go to bed with her or even be with her.

¹¹One day he went into the house to attend to his duties,^(G) and none of the household servants^(H) was inside. ¹²She caught him by his cloak^(I) and said, “Come to bed with me!”^(J) But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.^(K)

¹³When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, ¹⁴she called her household servants.^(L) “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew^(M) has been brought to us to make sport of us!^(N) He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.^{(O) 15}When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”^(P)

¹⁶She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. ¹⁷Then she told him this story:^(Q) “That Hebrew^(R) slave^(S) you brought us came to me to make sport of me. ¹⁸But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

¹⁹When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger.^{(T) 20}Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison,^(U) the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.

But while Joseph was there in the prison, ²¹the Lord was with him;^(V) he showed him kindness^(W) and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.^{(X) 22}So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.^{(Y) 23}The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s^(Z) care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.^(AA)

Cross references

1. Genesis 39:7 : S Ge 38:16; Pr 7:15-18
2. Genesis 39:8 : Pr 6:23-24
3. Genesis 39:8 : S ver 4
4. Genesis 39:9 : Ge 41:33, 40
5. Genesis 39:9 : S Ge 13:13; S Nu 22:34
6. Genesis 39:10 : Est 3:4
7. Genesis 39:11 : Ex 18:20; Dt 1:18
8. Genesis 39:11 : ver 14
9. Genesis 39:12 : 2Sa 13:11; Pr 7:13
10. Genesis 39:12 : S Ge 38:16
11. Genesis 39:12 : ver 15; Pr 5:8; 2Ti 2:22
12. Genesis 39:14 : ver 11
13. Genesis 39:14 : S Ge 14:13
14. Genesis 39:14 : S Ge 21:9
15. Genesis 39:14 : Dt 22:24, 27
16. Genesis 39:15 : S ver 12
17. Genesis 39:17 : Ex 20:16; 23:1, 7; Dt 5:20; Ps 101:5
18. Genesis 39:17 : S Ge 14:13
19. Genesis 39:17 : Ge 21:10
20. Genesis 39:19 : S Ge 34:7; S Est 1:12
21. Genesis 39:20 : Ge 40:3; 41:10; Ps 105:18
22. Genesis 39:21 : S Ge 21:20
23. Genesis 39:21 : S Ge 19:19
24. Genesis 39:21 : Ex 3:21; 11:3; 12:36; Est 2:9; Ps 106:46; Pr 16:7; Da 1:9
25. Genesis 39:22 : S ver 4
26. Genesis 39:23 : S Ge 21:20; S Nu 14:43
27. Genesis 39:23 : S ver 3