Genesis 39:16-21 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

2-3. So Joseph lived in the home of Potiphar, his Egyptian owner.Soon Potiphar realized that the Lord was helping Joseph to be successful in whatever he did.

16. Potiphar's wife kept Joseph's coat until her husband came home.

17. Then she said, “That Hebrew slave of yours tried to rape me!

18. But when I screamed for help, he left his coat and ran out of the house.”

19. Potiphar became very angry

20. and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king's prisoners were kept.While Joseph was in prison,

21. the Lord helped him and was good to him. He even made the jailer like Joseph so much that

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