New American Bible, Revised Edition

Genesis 39:12-19 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

12. she laid hold of him by his cloak, saying, “Lie with me!” But leaving the cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

13. When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand as he escaped outside,

14. she cried out to her household servants and told them, “Look! My husband has brought us a Hebrew man to mock us! He came in here to lie with me, but I cried out loudly.

15. When he heard me scream, he left his cloak beside me and escaped and ran outside.”

16. She kept the cloak with her until his master came home.

17. Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave whom you brought us came to me to amuse himself at my expense.

18. But when I screamed, he left his cloak beside me and escaped outside.”

19. When the master heard his wife’s story in which she reported, “Thus and so your servant did to me,” he became enraged.