1 José foi conduzido ao Egito, e Putifar, um oficial egípcio do faraó, chefe da guarda, comprou-o aos ismaelitas que o levavam.
2 O Senhor estava com José, e tudo lhe prosperava. Morava na casa do seu senhor, o egípcio.
3 Seu senhor viu que o Senhor estava com ele e lhe fazia prosperar tudo o que empreendia.
4 José conquistou a simpatia do seu senhor, que o empregou ao seu serviço, pondo-o à testa de sua casa e confiando-lhe todos os seus bens.
5 Desde o momento em que José tomou o governo de sua casa e de todos os seus bens, o Senhor abençoou a casa do egípcio, por causa de José: a bênção do Senhor desceu sobre tudo o que lhe pertencia, na casa como nos campos.
6 Ele entregou todos os seus negócios a José, sem mais se preocupar de coisa alguma, exceto do que se alimentava. Ora, José era belo de corpo e de rosto.
7 E aconteceu, depois de tudo isto, que a mulher de seu senhor lançou seus olhos em José e disse-lhe: "Dorme comigo."
8 Mas ele recusou: "Meu senhor, disse-lhe ele, não me pede conta alguma do que se faz na casa, e confiou-me todos os seus bens.
9 Não há maior do que eu nesta casa; ele nada me interdisse, exceto tu, que és sua mulher. Como poderia eu cometer um tão grande crime e pecar contra Deus?"
10 Em vão se esforçava ela todos os dias, falando a José; ele não consentia em dormir com ela e unir-se a ela.
11 Certo dia, tendo ele entrado na casa para fazer seus serviços, e não se encontrando ali ninguém da casa,
12 ela segurou-o pelo manto, dizendo: "Dorme comigo!" Mas José, largando-lhe o manto nas mãos, fugiu.
13 Vendo a mulher que ele lhe tinha deixado o manto nas mãos e fugido,
14 chamou a gente de sua casa e disse-lhes: "Vede: trouxeram-nos este hebreu para a casa a fim de que ele abuse de nós. Este homem veio-me procurar para dormir comigo, mas eu gritei.
15 E vendo que eu me punha a gritar, deixou seu manto ao meu lado e fugiu."
16 E guardou junto de si as vestes de José até a volta de seu senhor.
17 E fez-lhe a mesma narrativa: "O escravo hebreu, disse ela, que nos trouxeste, veio à minha procura para abusar de mim.
18 Mas, pondo-me a gritar, deixou o seu manto ao meu lado e fugiu."
19 Ao ouvir isto de sua mulher, contando-lhe como se tinha comportado com ela o seu servo, ele enfureceu-se,
20 e lançou José na prisão, onde se encontravam detidos os prisioneiros do rei. E José foi encarcerado.
21 O Senhor estava com ele. Mostrou-lhe sua bondade e fez que ele conquistasse a simpatia do chefe da prisão.
22 Este confiou a José todos o presos que ali se encontravam, e nada se fazia sem sua ordem.
23 O chefe da prisão não fiscalizava nada do que fazia José, porque o Senhor estava com ele e fazia-lhe prosperar tudo o que empreendia.
1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
2 The LORD was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.
3 When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did,
4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.
5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.
6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
7 and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, "Come to bed with me!"
8 But he refused. "With me in charge," he told her, "my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.
9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?"
10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.
11 One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.
12 She caught him by his cloak and said, "Come to bed 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 had run out of the house,
14 she called her household servants. "Look," she said to them, "this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.
15 When he heard me scream for help, 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 this story: "That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me.
18 But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."
19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he burned with anger.
20 Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,
21 the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
22 So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.
23 The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.