Genesis 39:7–15

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

⁸But he refused.^m “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.^{n 9}No one is greater in this house than I am.^o 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?”^{p 10}And 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