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The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 122

1 min 3 verses Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII (translated by Rev. Dr. Sinker, 1870), public domain. Chapters are numbered in order from Reuben 1 to Benjamin 12, and verse numbers are this archive's own sentence divisions.

Joseph 12

The Memphian wife of Potiphar passed by with great pomp and cast her eyes on the youth after her eunuchs spoke of him.

A1🔗bout that time the Memphian wife of Potiphar passed by with great pomp, and cast her eyes upon me, because her eunuchs told her concerning me.

2🔗 And she told her husband concerning the merchant, that he had become rich by means of a young Hebrew, saying, And they say that men have indeed stolen him out of the land of Canaan.

3🔗 Now therefore execute judgment with him, and take away the youth to be thy steward; so shall the God of the Hebrews bless thee, for grace from heaven is upon him.

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1

The Memphian wife of Potiphar passed by with great pomp and cast her eyes on the youth after her eunuchs spoke of him.

2

She told her husband a merchant had grown rich through a young Hebrew whom men had stolen from Canaan.

3

Potiphar's wife urged him to execute judgment with the merchant and take away the youth as steward.

4

She declared that grace from heaven rested upon the young Hebrew taken from the land of Canaan.

5

She promised the God of the Hebrews would bless Potiphar if he made the youth his steward.

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