Genesis 39:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • Prov 1:10 : 10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
  • Prov 2:10 : 10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue; 17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind: 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
  • Prov 5:3-8 : 3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword; 5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld; 6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge. 7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you. 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
  • Prov 6:20-25 : 20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: 21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. 22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you. 23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life. 24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman. 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • Prov 6:29 : 29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
  • Prov 6:32-33 : 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. 33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
  • Prov 7:25-27 : 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. 26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army. 27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Prov 9:13-18 : 13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all. 14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town, 15 Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says: 16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says: 17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. 18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
  • Prov 18:24 : 24 There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
  • Prov 23:26-28 : 26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways. 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. 28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

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    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 39:2-7
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    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.

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

  • Gen 39:22-23
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    22 And the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under Joseph's control, and he was responsible for whatever was done there.

    23 And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.

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    44 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

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    7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:

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    15 And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

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    37 And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

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    39 And I said to my master, What if the woman will not come with me?

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