# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 123: Joseph 13

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/123 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**123:1** And Potiphar was persuaded by her words, and commanded the merchant to be brought, and said unto him, What is this that I hear, that thou stealest souls out of the land of the Hebrews, and sellest them for slaves?

**123:2** The merchant therefore fell upon his face, and besought him, saying, I beseech thee, my lord, I know not what thou sayest.

**123:3** And he said, Whence then is thy Hebrew servant?

**123:4** And he said, The Ishmaelites entrusted him to me until they should return.

**123:5** And he believed him not, but commanded him to be stripped and beaten.

**123:6** And when he persisted, Potiphar said, Let the youth be brought.

**123:7** And when I was brought in, I did obeisance to the chief of the eunuchs—for he was third in rank with Pharaoh, being chief of all the eunuchs, and having wives and children and concubines.

**123:8** And he took me apart from him, and said unto me, Art thou a slave or free?

**123:9** And I said, A slave. And he said unto me, Whose slave art thou?

**123:10** And I said unto him, The Ishmaelites’. And again he said unto me, How becamest thou their slave?

**123:11** And I said, They bought me out of the land of Canaan.

**123:12** And he believed me not, and said, Thou liest: and he commanded me to be stripped and beaten.

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