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Genesis 39:4-13 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

4. Joseph found favor in his eyes, so he served him as a personal servant and he made him an overseer over his household; everything that was his he entrusted into his hand.

5. From the time that he made him an overseer in his house and over everything that belonged to him, Adonai blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph; Adonai’s blessing was on everything that belonged to him, in the house and in the field.

6. So he released everything he owned into Joseph’s hand. With him in charge, he did not think about anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and handsome in appearance.

7. Now after these things, the master’s wife lifted up her eyes at Joseph and said, “Come, lie down with me!”

8. But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “my master doesn’t think about anything in the house with me in charge, and everything that belongs to him he’s entrusted into my hand.

9. No one in this house is greater than I, and he has withheld nothing from me—except you, because you are his wife. So how could I commit this great evil and sin against God?”

10. So whenever she spoke to Joseph, day after day, he did not listen to her invitation to lie down beside her, to be with her.

11. Now on one such day, he came into the house to do his work, and none of the people of the house were there in the house.

12. Then she grabbed him by his garment saying, “Come, lie with me!” But he left his garment in her hand, fled and went outside.

13. When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside,

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