13. When she saw that she was holding his cloak and he had fled,
14. she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running. “Look!” she said. “My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to make fools of us! He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed.
15. When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.”
16. She kept the cloak with her until her husband came home.
17. Then she told him her story. “That Hebrew slave you’ve brought into our house tried to come in and fool around with me,” she said.
18. “But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his cloak with me!”
19. Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife’s story about how Joseph had treated her.
20. So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained.
21. But the lord was with Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love. And the lord made Joseph a favorite with the prison warden.
22. Before long, the warden put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and over everything that happened in the prison.
23. The warden had no more worries, because Joseph took care of everything. The lord was with him and caused everything he did to succeed.