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Genesis 39:11-23 Common English Bible (CEB)

11. One day when Joseph arrived at the house to do his work, none of the household’s men were there.

12. She grabbed his garment, saying, "Lie down with me." But he left his garment in her hands and ran outside.

13. When she realized that he had left his garment in her hands and run outside,

14. she summoned the men of her house and said to them, "Look, my husband brought us a Hebrew to ridicule us. He came to me to lie down with me, but I screamed.

15. When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his garment with me and ran outside."

16. She kept his garment with her until Joseph’s master came home,

17. and she told him the same thing: "The Hebrew slave whom you brought to us, to ridicule me, came to me;

18. but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment with me and ran outside."

19. When Joseph’s master heard the thing that his wife told him, "This is what your servant did to me," he was incensed.

20. Joseph’s master took him and threw him in jail, the place where the king’s prisoners were held. While he was in jail,

21. the Lord was with Joseph and remained loyal to him. He caused the jail’s commander to think highly of Joseph.

22. The jail’s commander put all of the prisoners in the jail under Joseph’s supervision, and he was the one who determined everything that happened there.

23. The jail’s commander paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s supervision, because the Lord was with him and made everything he did successful.

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