Genesis 39:12 “She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving…”

Genesis 39:12

She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

World English Bible

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

American Standard Version

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore she caught him by his garmet, saying, Sleepe with me: but he left his garment in her hand and fled, and got him out.

Darby Translation

Then she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran out.

Young's Literal Translation

and she catcheth him by his garment, saying, 'Lie with me;' and he leaveth his garment in her hand, and fleeth, and goeth without.

Bible in Basic English

And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

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Cross references

“caught”

Proverbs 7:13–27 Ecclesiastes 7:26 Genesis 39:8 Genesis 39:10 Ezekiel 16:30 Ezekiel 16:31

Proverbs 7:13–27 · BSB

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

Ecclesiastes 7:26 · BSB

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

Genesis 39:8 · BSB

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Genesis 39:10 · BSB

Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

Ezekiel 16:30 · BSB

How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!

Ezekiel 16:31 · BSB

But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

“and he left”

2 Timothy 2:22 Proverbs 5:8 Proverbs 6:5 1 Peter 2:11 1 Corinthians 15:33 Proverbs 1:15

2 Timothy 2:22 · BSB

Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Proverbs 5:8 · BSB

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 6:5 · BSB

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

1 Peter 2:11 · BSB

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

1 Corinthians 15:33 · BSB

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Proverbs 1:15 · BSB

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.

13When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,

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