Genesis 39 Potiphar's wife set him up

seekeroftruth

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Genesis 39:8 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. 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?” 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.

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

13 When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, 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. 15 When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

16 She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. 17 Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. 18 But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”​

Well this reads like a soap opera.... So it really doesn't need any commentary input. All the commentaries offer on these verses is preaching.

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stgislander

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Is this the first time we see Abraham's descendants called Hebrews? It may have been used in an earlier chapter but it really jumps out here.
 

b23hqb

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Is this the first time we see Abraham's descendants called Hebrews? It may have been used in an earlier chapter but it really jumps out here.

Gen 14:13 is the first mention of "the Hebrew", is the earliest I can find. That was in reference to Abram as well. It was perhaps used in a fearful or derogatory manner to describe the nomadic peoples considered migrants by the Canaanites.
 
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