# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 114: Joseph 4

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/114 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**114:1** How often has she fawned upon me with words as a holy man, with guile in her talk, praising my chastity before her husband, while desiring to destroy me when we were alone.

**114:2** She lauded me openly as chaste, and in secret she said unto me, Fear not my husband; for he is persuaded concerning thy chastity, so that even should one tell him concerning us he would in no wise believe.

**114:3** For all these things I lay upon the ground in sackcloth, and I besought God that the Lord would deliver me from the Egyptian.

**114:4** And when she prevailed nothing, she came again to me under the plea of instruction, that she might know the word of the Lord.

**114:5** And she said unto me, If thou willest that I should leave my idols, be persuaded by me, and I will persuade my husband to depart from his idols, and we will walk in the law of thy Lord.

**114:6** And I said unto her, The Lord willeth not that those who reverence Him should be in uncleanness, nor doth He take pleasure in them that commit adultery.

**114:7** And she held her peace, longing to accomplish her evil desire.

**114:8** And I gave myself yet more to fasting and prayer, that the Lord should deliver me from her.

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