1 Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an Egyptian, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.
2 The LORD was with Joseph, so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.
3 His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he undertook.
4 Joseph found favor with him and waited on him. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted to him everything he owned.
5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's household because of Joseph. The LORD's blessing rested on everything he had, both in the house and in the fields.
6 So he left everything he owned in Joseph's care, and with Joseph there he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was fine of form and fine to look at.
7 Some time later his master's wife set her eyes on Joseph and said, "Sleep with me."
8 But he refused. "Look," he said to his master's wife, "with me in charge, my master gives no thought to anything in the house; he has entrusted to me everything he owns.
9 No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, since you are his wife. How then could I commit such a great wrong and sin against God?"
10 Though she kept on speaking to Joseph day after day, he would not consent to lie beside her or even be with her.
11 One day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household men were inside.
12 She grabbed him by his cloak and said, "Sleep with me!" But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.
13 When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and run outside,
14 she called her household servants and told them, "Look at this! He has brought in a Hebrew to make sport of us. He came in here to sleep with me, and I screamed.
15 When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."
16 She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home.
17 Then she told him the same story: "The Hebrew servant you brought us came in to me to make sport of me.
18 But when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his cloak beside me and ran outside."
19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, "This is how your servant treated me," he burned with anger.
20 Joseph's master took him and put him in the prison where the king's prisoners were held, and there he stayed in the prison.
21 But the LORD was with Joseph and extended steadfast love to him, and made him find favor with the warden of the prison.
22 The warden put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners held in the prison, and he was responsible for everything that was done there.
23 The warden did not look into anything under Joseph's care, because the LORD was with him, and the LORD made whatever he did succeed.