She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
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She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
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And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
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And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Genesis 39:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 37:32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
- Psalms 37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
- Jeremiah 4:22 “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
- Jeremiah 9:3-5 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh. “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
- Titus 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 39:16 And she laid up his garment by…
Gen 39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
Ver. 16. {See Trapp on "Gen 39:12"} {See Trapp on "Gen 39:15"}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And she laid up his garment by her,.... As…
And she laid up his garment by her,.... As a proof of what she laid to his charge, and as a testimony against him:
until her lord came home; or until his lord came home, for the pronoun refers to Joseph, and so Jarchi interprets it; who either was gone a journey, or gone to court that day, being an officer of Pharaoh's, or to the public place where the festival was kept that day, if it was such an one.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain A proof of her fidelity, or an argument to…
A proof of her fidelity, or an argument to gain credit, argumentum fidei. (Challoner) --- Love neglected, turns to fury. She wishes to take away Joseph’s life, according to the laws of Egypt against adulterers. Diodorus says Sesostris burnt some women taken in the crime; and we must attribute it to divine Providence, that the enraged husband did not inflict instant death upon his slave. Perhaps he did not altogether believe him guilty. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. laid up] i.e. laid on one side, and…
16. laid up] i.e. laid on one side, and kept ready to be produced as evidence.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 16-18. And she laid up his garment by…
Vers. 16-18. And she laid up his garment by her (literally, by her side), until his lord came home (literally, until the coming of his lord to his house). And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us (here she charges her husband with being indirectly at least the cause of the alleged affront which had been put upon her), came in unto me to mock me: seemed too modest to speak in plain terms of Joseph"s crime (Lawson)and it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me and fled out (i.e. went forth into the street, ut supra).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 his master
his master
"Joseph's master." This refers to Potiphar.
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She told him this explanation
"She explained it like this"
brought to us
The word "us" refers to Potiphar, his wife, and includes the rest of the household. (See: Inclusive "We")
came in to mock me
"came in to make a fool of me." Here, the word "mock" is a euphemism for "to seize and to sleep with." AT: "came into where I was and tried to force me to sleep with him" (See: Euphemism)
It came about that
"Then." Potiphar's wife uses this phrase to mark the next event in the account she is telling him about Joseph trying to sleep with her. (See: Introduction of a New Event)
fled outside
"ran quickly out of the house"
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lord
Hebrew
servant
mock
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