1Quando José chegou ao Egito, cativo dos negociantes ismaelitas, foi comprado por Potifar membro da corte do Faraó. Potifar era chefe da casa militar do rei e responsável pelo palácio real.2O SENHOR estava com José, na casa do seu senhor, de tal forma que tudo o que fazia resultava bem.3O próprio Potifar reparou nisso e deu-se conta de que o SENHOR estava com José de uma forma especial.4José tornou-se o seu favorito e depressa ficou com a responsabilidade da administração da casa de Potifar e dos seus negócios pessoais.5Logo o SENHOR começou a abençoar o próprio Potifar por causa de José. Todos os seus assuntos corriam bem e floresciam as propriedades no campo, assim como os rebanhos que tinha;6de tal maneira que Potifar acabou por deixar sobre José a responsabilidade de tudo o que era seu. Não se preocupava fosse com o que fosse a não ser com o que queria comer cada dia.7José era um belo moço com uma apresentação muito agradável. Por esse tempo a mulher de Potifar começou a reparar nele e acabou por convidá-lo a dormir consigo.8Ele recusou: “O meu patrão confia-me tudo o que tem.9Ele próprio não tem mais autoridade do que eu aqui em casa! Não me privou de coisa nenhuma a não ser de ti, porque és a sua mulher. Como é que eu ia fazer uma coisa assim tão grave? Seria um grande pecado contra Deus!”10Ela continuava a convidá-lo todos os dias, apesar de ele sempre recusar.11Um dia, estava José em casa cumprindo os serviços habituais e ninguém mais se encontrava ali.12Então ela veio e puxou-o pela camisa, incitando-o a ir com ela. Mas ele preferiu deixar-lhe a camisa nas mãos e afastar-se rapidamente para fora de casa.13Quando viu que lhe tinha ficado com a camisa,14começou a gritar, de tal forma que as pessoas dali perto, à volta da casa, acorreram. “O meu marido trouxe para casa este escravo hebreu para nos ofender!”, exclamava. “Tentou violentar-me e, quando comecei a gritar,15fugiu; mas deixou aqui a camisa.”16E pôs a roupa perto dela. Quando o marido chegou17contou-lhe a sua história: “Esse escravo hebreu que trouxeste cá para casa veio ter comigo e tentou violentar-me.18Salvei-me porque comecei a gritar com toda a força. Ele fugiu, mas deixou aqui a camisa.”19Ao ouvir aquilo o marido ficou furioso.20Pôs José na prisão, onde se encontravam outros presos do rei.21Contudo, também ali o SENHOR continuava ao lado de José, beneficiando-o com a sua bondade; e fez com que caísse na simpatia do chefe carcereiro.22Por isso, este último depressa lhe confiou toda a responsabilidade da administração da prisão, e até todos os outros prisioneiros estavam ao seu cuidado.23O carcereiro não se ocupava de mais nada, porque José tomava conta de tudo, e como o SENHOR estava com ele tudo lhe corria bem.
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Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife
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.2The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.3His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.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.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.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.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.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?”10And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.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.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.21But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.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.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.
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