1Cuando José llegó a Egipto, fue vendido por los ismaelitas a Potifar, que era un egipcio muy importante, ya que era el capitán de la guardia personal del faraón.2El SEÑOR bendijo mucho a José en la casa de su amo, de modo que tenía éxito en todo lo que emprendía.3Potifar comprendió que el SEÑOR estaba con José de una manera muy especial.4Por supuesto, José llegó a ser su persona de confianza. Pronto estuvo a cargo de la administración de la hacienda y todos los negocios de Potifar.5Inmediatamente, Dios comenzó a bendecir a Potifar, por amor a José. Todos los asuntos de su hacienda comenzaron a prosperar, sus cosechas aumentaron y se multiplicó su ganado.6Por esa razón, Potifar le entregó a José la responsabilidad de administrar todas sus posesiones. Potifar no tenía nada de qué preocuparse, sino de comer. Además de las cualidades mencionadas, José era un joven bien parecido.7Un día la mujer de Potifar comenzó a fijarse en José, se enamoró de él y lo invitó a tener relaciones sexuales con ella.8Pero José se rehusó a hacerlo, y le dijo: ―Señora, mi amo confía en mí en todo lo relacionado con su hacienda;9él me ha dado toda su autoridad. No me ha prohibido ninguna cosa. Solamente sobre usted yo no tengo ningún derecho, pues usted es su esposa. ¿Cómo podría yo hacerle una maldad tan grande como esta? Sería un pecado muy grande contra Dios.10Pero ella continuó con sus insinuaciones día tras día, a pesar de que él se negaba y evitaba en todo lo posible encontrarse con ella a solas.11Un día, mientras José estaba haciendo sus quehaceres en la casa, ella aprovechó que no había nadie más en la casa,12lo agarró de la túnica y le ordenó: ―¡Acuéstate conmigo! Él salió corriendo, pero ella logró echarle mano del manto y se lo quitó.13Cuando ella vio el manto de José en sus manos, y que él había huido,14-15comenzó a gritar. Cuando los otros hombres que estaban cerca llegaron corriendo para ver lo que ocurría, ella comenzó a gritar histéricamente. ―¡Mi marido tenía que traer a ese esclavo hebreo para que nos insultara! —dijo llorando—. Trató de violarme, pero cuando grité, huyó y olvidó llevarse el manto.16Ella guardó el manto, y cuando Potifar regresó a casa esa noche,17le dijo: ―¡El esclavo hebreo que tienes aquí quiso violarme,18y solamente mis gritos me salvaron! ¡Al salir corriendo se le quedó su manto!19Cuando Potifar oyó esto, se enfureció.20Tomó preso a José y lo echó en la cárcel donde tenían encadenados a los prisioneros del rey.21Pero el SEÑOR estuvo con José también allí y le mostró su amor, permitiendo que se ganara la confianza del carcelero.22El hecho es que el carcelero pronto le entregó el cuidado de los prisioneros y lo dejó a cargo de todo lo demás que se hacía en la cárcel.23Por eso, el carcelero ya no se preocupaba de nada, porque José tenía cuidado de cada cosa y el SEÑOR hacía que todas las cosas le salieran bien.
1Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. (Gn 37:25; Gn 37:28; Gn 37:36)2The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. (Gn 21:22; Gn 26:24; Gn 26:28; Gn 28:15; Gn 39:21; 1 S 16:18; 1 S 18:14; 1 S 18:28; Hch 7:9)3His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. (2 Cr 26:5; Sal 1:3)4So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had. (Gn 19:19; Gn 33:10; Gn 39:8; Gn 39:21)5From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field. (Gn 30:27)6So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. (Gn 29:17; 1 S 16:12)7And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”8But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. (Gn 39:4)9He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” (2 S 12:13; Sal 51:4)10And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. (Pr 1:10)11But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,12she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house. (Pr 7:13; Pr 7:18)13And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,14she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.15And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.”16Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,17and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.18But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.”19As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.20And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison. (Gn 40:3; Gn 40:5; Gn 40:15; Gn 41:14; Sal 105:18)21But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. (Gn 39:2; Ex 3:21; Ex 11:3; Ex 12:36; Hch 7:9)22And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it. (Gn 40:4)23The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed. (Gn 39:2)