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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 39 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/39.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/39-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Genesis 39</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/38.htm" title="Genesis 38">◄</a> Genesis 39 <a href="../genesis/40.htm" title="Genesis 40">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/genesis/39.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When his master saw that the <span class="name">Lord</span> was with him and that the <span class="name">Lord</span> gave him success in everything he did, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the <span class="name">Lord</span> blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the <span class="name">Lord</span> was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.</p><p class="reg">Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.</p><p class="reg">But while Joseph was there in the prison, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>the <span class="name">Lord</span> was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/39-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the <span class="name">Lord</span> was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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