Joseph is sold into Potiphar's house. God blesses everything Joseph oversees. Potiphar's wife attempts to seduce Joseph repeatedly, but he resists. She falsely accuses him, and he is thrown into prison.
Joseph's resistance to sexual temptation becomes a model of the anti-intermarriage ethic. His faithfulness contrasts with Reuben's failure in chapter 33.
The narrative is shorter than Genesis 39. Jubilees is less interested in narrative art than in legal and moral lessons.
Genesis 39:1-23; Proverbs 5-7 (warnings against the adulterous woman); Jubilees 33 (contrast).
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Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites.
REF And Joseph was brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar bought him.
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The Lord was with Joseph, and he prospered. His master made him overseer of his entire household.
REF And the Lord was with Joseph, and he prospered.
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He entrusted everything to Joseph's care and gave no thought to anything except the food he ate.
REF And Potiphar left all in Joseph's hand.
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Joseph was well-built and strikingly handsome.
REF And Joseph was fair of form and very beautiful.
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His master's wife noticed Joseph. She desired him and urged him to lie with her.
REF And his master's wife besought him to lie with her.
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But he did not surrender his soul. He remembered the Lord and the words his father Jacob used to read from the writings of Abraham: that no man should commit adultery with another man's wife, that the death penalty is ordained in heaven for this.
REF But he refused, and remembered the words of Abraham.
The heavenly records that permanently document all human actions
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Joseph kept these words in mind and refused to lie with her.
REF And Joseph refused to lie with her.
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She pleaded with him for a full year, then a second, but he refused and would not listen.
REF And she besought him for two years.
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She seized him and held him, trying to force him. But he left his garment in her hands, broke through the door, and fled.
REF And she seized him, but he left his garment and fled.
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She slandered him before his master: Your Hebrew servant tried to assault me. He fled and left his garment in my hand.
REF And she slandered him to his master.
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Potiphar was furious with Joseph. He had him thrown into prison — the place where the king's prisoners were held.
REF And Potiphar gave Joseph over to the prison.
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The Lord gave Joseph favor in the prison warden's eyes. The warden entrusted everything to Joseph's care. For Joseph knew the Lord, and the Lord delivered him from every evil.
REF And the Lord gave Joseph favour in the sight of the prison warden.