# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 118: Joseph 8

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/118 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**118:1** I declare unto you, my children, that it was about the sixth hour when she departed from me; and I knelt before the Lord all that day, and continued all the night; and about dawn I rose up weeping, and praying for a release from the Egyptian.

**118:2** At last, then, she laid hold of my garments, forcibly dragging me to have connection with her.

**118:3** When, therefore, I saw that in her madness she was forcibly holding my garments, I fled away naked.

**118:4** And she falsely accused me to her husband, and the Egyptian cast me into the prison in his house; and on the morrow, having scourged me, the Egyptian sent me into the prison in his house.

**118:5** When, therefore, I was in fetters, the Egyptian woman fell sick from her vexation, and listened to me how I sang praises unto the Lord while I was in the abode of darkness, and with glad voice rejoiced and glorified my God only because by a pretext I had been rid of the Egyptian woman.

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