But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.[a] No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”(A)

10 Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused[b] to go to bed with her.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 39:8 Lit owns in my hand
  2. Genesis 39:10 Lit did not listen to her
  3. Genesis 39:10 Lit refused to lie beside her, to be with her

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