Genesis 39

Question 1

Genesis 39:1

Answer 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.

Question 2

Genesis 39:2

Answer 2

The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.

Question 3

Genesis 39:3

Answer 3

When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did,

Question 4

Genesis 39:4

Answer 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.

Question 5

Genesis 39:5

Answer 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.

Question 6

Genesis 39:6

Answer 6

So he left in Joseph’s care everything he had; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

Question 7

Genesis 39:7

Answer 7

and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”

Question 8

Genesis 39:8

Answer 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.

Question 9

Genesis 39:9

Answer 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?”

Question 10

Genesis 39:10

Answer 10

And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.

Question 11

Genesis 39:11

Answer 11

One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.

Question 12

Genesis 39:12

Answer 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.

Question 13

Genesis 39:13

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Genesis 39:14

Answer 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.

Question 15

Genesis 39:15

Answer 15

When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Question 16

Genesis 39:16

Answer 16

She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home.

Question 17

Genesis 39:17

Answer 17

Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me.

Question 18

Genesis 39:18

Answer 18

But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Question 19

Genesis 39:19

Answer 19

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger.

Question 20

Genesis 39:20

Answer 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,

Question 21

Genesis 39:21

Answer 21

the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

Question 22

Genesis 39:22

Answer 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.

Question 23

Genesis 39:23

Answer 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.