Genesis 39:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.

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  • 2 Sam 13:11 : 11 And when she took them to give them to him, he put his arms round her and said, Come to bed, my sister.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
  • Prov 5:9 : 9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
  • Prov 7:13 : 13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
  • Prov 7:15-18 : 15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you. 16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt; 17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices. 18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
  • Ezek 16:25 : 25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.
  • Ezek 16:32 : 32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
  • Ezek 16:34 : 34 And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.
  • Ezek 23:5-6 : 5 And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours, 6 Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.
  • Ezek 23:12-16 : 12 She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired. 13 And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way. 14 And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red, 15 With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea. 16 And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 39:8-20
    13 verses
    84%

    8 But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

    9 So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

    10 And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

    11 Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside.

    12 And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

    13 And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,

    14 She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;

    15 And hearing it he went running out without his coat.

    16 And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.

    17 Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me;

    18 And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.

    19 And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.

    20 And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.

  • Gen 39:1-6
    6 verses
    77%

    1 Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

    2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian.

    3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.

    4 And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.

    5 And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

    6 And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.

  • Num 5:13
    72%

    13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • Prov 6:25
    71%

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Exod 22:16
    71%

    16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.