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		Gen 39:1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the [royal] guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.
		Gen 39:2 The LORD was with Joseph, and he [even though a slave] became a successful and prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.
		Gen 39:3 Now his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to prosper (succeed) in his hand. [Gen 21:22; 26:27, 28; 41:38, 39]
		Gen 39:4 So Joseph pleased Potiphar and found favor in his sight and he served him as his personal servant. He made Joseph overseer over his house, and he put all that he owned in Joseph's charge.
		Gen 39:5 It happened that from the time that he made Joseph overseer in his house and [put him in charge] over all that he owned, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house because of Joseph; so the LORD'S blessing was on everything that Potiphar owned, in the house and in the field.
		Gen 39:6 So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph's charge; and with Joseph there he did not [need to] pay attention to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and attractive in form and appearance. [Gen 43:32]
		Gen 39:7 ¶ Then after a time his master's wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, "Lie with me."
		Gen 39:8 But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, with me in the house, my master does not concern himself with anything; he has put everything that he owns in my charge.
		Gen 39:9 "He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God [and your husband]?"
		Gen 39:10 And so it was that she spoke to Joseph [persistently] day after day, but he did not listen to her [plea] to lie beside her or be with her.
		Gen 39:11 Then it happened one day that Joseph went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the men of the household was there in the house.
		Gen 39:12 She caught Joseph by his [outer] robe, saying, "Lie with me!" But he left his robe in her hand and ran, and got outside [the house].
		Gen 39:13 When she saw that he had left his robe in her hand and had run outside,
		Gen 39:14 she called to the men of her household and said to them, "Look at this, your master has brought a Hebrew [into the household] to mock and insult us; he came to me to lie with me, and I screamed.
		Gen 39:15 "When he heard me screaming, he left his robe with me and ran outside [the house]."
		Gen 39:16 So she left Joseph's [outer] robe beside her until his master came home.
		Gen 39:17 Then she told her husband the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you brought among us, came to me to mock and insult me;
		Gen 39:18 then as soon as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his robe with me and ran outside [the house]."
		Gen 39:19 ¶ And when Joseph's master heard the words of his wife, saying, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger burned.
		Gen 39:20 So Joseph's master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.
		Gen 39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph and extended lovingkindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the warden.
		Gen 39:22 The warden committed to Joseph's care (management) all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was in charge of it.
		Gen 39:23 The warden paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's care because the LORD was with him; whatever Joseph did, the LORD made to prosper.

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