{
  "1": "Now {as you know,} {some} Ishmaelite traders had taken Joseph down to {the country of} Egypt, and an Egyptian {named} Potiphar had bought him {as a servant} from them. Potiphar {was} {one of} {King} Pharaoh’s officers, the captain over the king’s {personal} guards. ",
  "2": "As Joseph worked in his Egyptian owner’s house, Yahweh was with him {and helped him}, so that he succeeded in everything he did.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "3": "His owner realized that Yahweh {was} with him and was helping him to succeed in everything that he did. ",
  "4": "So Potiphar was pleased with Joseph and made him his personal servant. He also put him in charge of managing his household and taking care of everything {else} {that} he owned.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "5": "From the time {that} Joseph’s Egyptian owner did that, Yahweh blessed the household of that Egyptian {man} for Joseph’s sake. He blessed everything that belonged to him, {including} {everything} in {his} home and in {his} fields. ",
  "6": "In fact, after Joseph’s owner put him in charge of everything that he owned, he did not {need to} concern himself with anything {in his household} except for {personal matters like} {deciding} what {kind of} food {he wanted} to eat.\n\\p\nJoseph was well-built and good-looking.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "7": "So after a while, his owner’s wife started looking at him {with desire} and told {him}, “Come to bed with me!” ",
  "8": "But Joseph refused and said to her, “Listen, because of me, my owner does not {have to} concern himself with anything that {is} in {his} house. In fact, he has put me in charge of everything that he owns, ",
  "9": "{so that} he has no one in his household who has more authority than I do. He has given me freedom with everything {in his household}, except you, {of course,} because you {are} his wife. So there is no way I would {ever} sin against God by doing such an evil thing!”\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "10": "Day after day Potiphar’s wife kept pressuring Joseph to go to bed with her, but he refused her requests and stayed away from her.\n\n\\p",
  "11": "Then one day Joseph went to {his owner’s} house {as usual} to do his work, but no other menservants from the household were there. ",
  "12": "So Potiphar’s wife {saw her chance and} grabbed {hold of} Joseph by his robe {and} demanded, “Come to bed with me!” But {immediately} he fled and left his robe in her hands as he ran outdoors.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "13": "As soon as she saw that Joseph had run outdoors and left his robe {behind} in her hands, ",
  "14": "she summoned the {other} menservants from her household. Then {when they arrived,} she exclaimed to them, “Look, my husband brought {this} Hebrew servant {here} among us to make fools of us! He came here to rape me, but I screamed loudly {for help}! ",
  "15": "Then as soon as he heard me scream like that, he left his robe with me and ran outdoors!”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "16": "So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s robe with her until {her husband,} Joseph’s owner, returned home. ",
  "17": "Then she told him the same story. She said, “The Hebrew servant whom you brought among us came here to make a fool of me! ",
  "18": "But as soon as I screamed loudly, he left his robe with me and ran outdoors!”\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "19": "When Joseph’s owner heard what his wife said his servant had done to her, he became very angry. ",
  "20": "So he {had soldiers} arrest Joseph and put him in the prison where they kept people who had committed crimes against the king. \n\\p\nJoseph remained there in prison, \n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "21": "but Yahweh was with him and was kind to him and caused the prison warden to be pleased with him, {so that he treated him well}. ",
  "22": "So {before long} the warden put Joseph in charge of all the {other} prisoners who {were} in that prison, so that he {was the one who} managed everything that they did there. ",
  "23": "The warden did not {need to} pay attention to anything at all that Joseph was in charge of, because Yahweh was with Joseph and enabled him to succeed at everything he did.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "front": "\\s1 Potiphar’s Wife Tries to Seduce Joseph\n\\sr 39:1-23\n\\p"
}