Genesis 39:10–20

¹⁰And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused^q to go to bed with her or even be with her.

¹¹One day he went into the house to attend to his duties,^r and none of the household servants^s was inside. ¹²She caught him by his cloak^t and said, “Come to bed with me!”^u But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.^v

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

¹⁶She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. ¹⁷Then she told him this story:^b “That Hebrew^c slave^d 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.^{e 20}Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison,^f the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.

But while Joseph was there in the prison,