Genesis Chapter 39

Joseph’s advancement

39:1 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
was carried down to Egypt ; and Potiphar, a courtier of Pharaoh, Chamberlain of the Butchers, an prominent Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmeelites, who had carried him down there.

39:2 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
was with Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
, and he was a prosperous man ; and he remained in the house of his
Egyptian master.
39:3 And his master saw that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
[was] with him, and that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
39:4 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
found favor in his eyes, and he served him and he appointed him over his household, and he gave him all that he owned to his care.
39:5 And it came about from the time [that] he had appointed him over his house, and over all that he owned, that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
blessed the Egyptian’s house for Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
‘s sake ; and the blessing of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
was on all that he had in the house, and in the field.
39:6 And he left all that he owned in Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
‘s hand ; and he didn’t concern himself anything except the bread which he ate. And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
was beautiful in form, and beautiful of appearance.

Joseph resists temptation


39:7 And after these things happened, that his master’s wife raised up her eyes to Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
; and she said, Lie with me.
39:8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, Look, my master doesn’t concern himself about in the house
with me, and all that he owns he has placed in my care.
39:9 [There is] no one
in this house is greater than I; He hasn’t kept back anything from me except you, because you [are] his wife how then can I do this great evil, and sin against Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator
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39:10 And it so happened, as she coaxed Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
day after day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie beside her to be with her.
39:11 And it so happened [on] this day, that [Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
] entered the house to do his work. And no one of the men of the household [were] there in the house.
39:12 And she caught him by his robe, saying, Lie with me! And he left his robe in her hand, and fled outside.
39:13 And it so happened, when she saw that he had left his robe in her hand, and fled outside,
39:14 She called to the men of her household, and spoke to them, saying, Look, he has brought us a Hebrewעברי
The biblical term Ivri Hebrew pronunciation: [ʕivˈri]), meaning “to traverse” or “to pass over”, is usually rendered as Hebrew in English from ever (עֵבֶר) ‘beyond, across’ (avar (עָבַר ‘he crossed, he traversed’), as a description of migrants ‘from across the river’ as the Bible describes the Hebrews.
to us to mock us; He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud scream.
39:15 And it happened, when he heard that I raised my voice and screamed, that he left his robe beside me, and fled, and went outside.
39:16 And she kept his robe beside her, until his master came home.
39:17 And she told these same words to him, saying, The Hebrewעברי
The biblical term Ivri Hebrew pronunciation: [ʕivˈri]), meaning “to traverse” or “to pass over”, is usually rendered as Hebrew in English from ever (עֵבֶר) ‘beyond, across’ (avar (עָבַר ‘he crossed, he traversed’), as a description of migrants ‘from across the river’ as the Bible describes the Hebrews.
slave, who you have brought in to us, came in to me to mock
at me
39:18 And it so happened, as I raised up my voice and screamed, that he left his robe beside me, and fled outside.
39:19 And it so happened, when his master heard
his wife’s words which she spoke to him, saying, According to these words your slave did to me; that his anger glowed.

Joseph is thrown into prison


39:20 And Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
‘s master took him, and put him into the prison house, the place where the king’s prisoners [were] imprisoned and he remained there in prison.
39:21 But YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
was with Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
, and endowed him with charisma. And put him favor in the eyes of the
prison warden.
39:22 And the
prison warden placed all the prisoners in the prison in Josephיוֹסֵף
Yosef Meaning: Jehovah shall add, God will add, taken away or praise, fame taken away. For more info click here
‘s care. And everything they did there, he would accomplish.
39:23 The
prison warden didn’t inspect anything that he was in charge of in that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
[was] with him , and whatever he did, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
made prosperous.

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