New American Bible, Revised Edition

Genesis 39:12-23 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.

20. Joseph’s master seized him and put him into the jail where the king’s prisoners were confined. And there he sat, in jail.

21. But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed him kindness by making the chief jailer well-disposed toward him.

22. The chief jailer put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners in the jail. Everything that had to be done there, he was the one to do it.

23. The chief jailer did not have to look after anything that was in Joseph’s charge, since the Lord was with him and was bringing success to whatever he was doing.