1Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.[ † ]Genesis 12:10Genesis 43:15Genesis 37:36Psalms 105:17Genesis 37:28Genesis 45:4 2And the Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.[ † ]Genesis 26:24-28Genesis 28:15Genesis 35:3Genesis 39:3-21, 231 Samuel 16:181 Samuel 18:14-28Acts 7:9
3When his master saw that the Lord was with him and made him prosper in all he did,[ † ]Psalms 1:3
4Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.[ † ]Genesis 18:3Genesis 19:19Genesis 39:21Genesis 24:2-10Genesis 39:8-22Genesis 41:40 5From the time that he put Joseph in charge of his household and all he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s household on account of him. The Lord’s blessing was on everything he owned, both in his house and in his field.[ † ]Genesis 18:26Genesis 30:272 Samuel 6:11
6So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,[ † ]Genesis 29:171 Samuel 16:12 7and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”[ † ]2 Samuel 13:11
8But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. 9No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”[ † ]Leviticus 20:10Proverbs 6:29-32Genesis 20:6Genesis 42:182 Samuel 12:13Psalms 51:4
10Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.[ † ]Proverbs 1:10 11One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside. 12She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.[ † ]Proverbs 7:13
13When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, 14she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.[ † ]Genesis 14:13Genesis 41:12 15When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
16So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home. 17Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,[ † ]Exodus 23:1Psalms 120:3Proverbs 26:28 18but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
19When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.[ † ]Proverbs 6:34-35
20So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,[ † ]Psalms 105:181 Peter 2:19Genesis 40:3-15Genesis 41:14 21the Lord was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.[ † ]Genesis 39:2Exodus 3:21Psalms 105:19Proverbs 16:7Daniel 1:9Acts 7:9-10 22And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.[ † ]Genesis 39:4Genesis 40:3-4 23The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.[ † ]Genesis 39:2-3