7. After a time, his master’s wife looked at him with longing and said, “Lie with me.”
8. But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, as long as I am here, my master does not give a thought to anything in the house, but has entrusted to me all he owns.
9. He has no more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld from me nothing but you, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great wrong and sin against God?”
10. Although she spoke to him day after day, he would not agree to lie with her, or even be near her.
11. One such day, when Joseph came into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were then in the house,
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.