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Genesis 39:18-23 Modern English Version (MEV)

18. When I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his clothing with me and fled outside.”

19. When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” he became enraged.

20. Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined.So he was there in the prison.

21. But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

22. The keeper of the prison committed all the prisoners that were in the prison to the charge of Joseph. So whatever they did there, he was the one responsible for it.

23. The keeper of the prison did not concern himself with anything that was under Joseph’s charge because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it to prosper.

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