1José havia sido levado para o Egito, onde o egípcio Potifar, oficial do faraó e capitão da guarda, comprou-o dos ismaelitas que o tinham levado para lá.2O SENHOR estava com José, de modo que este prosperou e passou a morar na casa do seu senhor egípcio.3Quando este percebeu que o SENHOR estava com ele e que o fazia prosperar em tudo o que realizava,4agradou-se de José e tornou-o administrador de seus bens. Potifar deixou a seu cuidado a sua casa e lhe confiou tudo o que possuía.5Desde que o deixou cuidando de sua casa e de todos os seus bens, o SENHOR abençoou a casa do egípcio por causa de José. A bênção do SENHOR estava sobre tudo o que Potifar possuía, tanto em casa como no campo.6Assim, deixou ele aos cuidados de José tudo o que tinha, e não se preocupava com coisa alguma, exceto com sua própria comida. José era atraente e de boa aparência,7e, depois de certo tempo, a mulher do seu senhor começou a cobiçá-lo e o convidou: “Venha, deite-se comigo!”8Mas ele se recusou e lhe disse: “Meu senhor não se preocupa com coisa alguma de sua casa, e tudo o que tem deixou aos meus cuidados.9Ninguém desta casa está acima de mim. Ele nada me negou, a não ser a senhora, porque é a mulher dele. Como poderia eu, então, cometer algo tão perverso e pecar contra Deus?”10Assim, embora ela insistisse com José dia após dia, ele se recusava a deitar-se com ela e evitava ficar perto dela.11Um dia ele entrou na casa para fazer suas tarefas, e nenhum dos empregados ali se encontrava.12Ela o agarrou pelo manto e voltou a convidá-lo: “Vamos, deite-se comigo!” Mas ele fugiu da casa, deixando o manto na mão dela.13Quando ela viu que, ao fugir, ele tinha deixado o manto em sua mão,14chamou os empregados e lhes disse: “Vejam, este hebreu nos foi trazido para nos insultar! Ele entrou aqui e tentou abusar de mim, mas eu gritei.15Quando me ouviu gritar por socorro, largou seu manto ao meu lado e fugiu da casa”.16Ela conservou o manto consigo até que o senhor de José chegasse à casa.17Então repetiu-lhe a história: “Aquele escravo hebreu que você nos trouxe aproximou-se de mim para me insultar.18Mas, quando gritei por socorro, ele largou seu manto ao meu lado e fugiu”.19Quando o seu senhor ouviu o que a sua mulher lhe disse: “Foi assim que o seu escravo me tratou”, ficou indignado.20Mandou buscar José e lançou-o na prisão em que eram postos os prisioneiros do rei. José ficou na prisão,21mas o SENHOR estava com ele e o tratou com bondade, concedendo-lhe a simpatia do carcereiro.22Por isso o carcereiro encarregou José de todos os que estavam na prisão, e ele se tornou responsável por tudo o que lá sucedia.23O carcereiro não se preocupava com nada do que estava a cargo de José, porque o SENHOR estava com José e lhe concedia bom êxito em tudo o que realizava.
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 Sm 16:18; 1 Sm 18:14; 1 Sm 18:28; At 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; Sl 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 Sm 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 Sm 12:13; Sl 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. (Pv 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. (Pv 7:13; Pv 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; Sl 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; At 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)