# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 124: Joseph 14

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/124 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**124:1** Now the Memphian woman was looking through a window while I was being beaten, and she sent unto her husband, saying, Thy judgment is unjust; for thou dost even punish a free man who hath been stolen, as though he were a transgressor.

**124:2** And when I gave no other answer though I was beaten, he commanded that we should be kept in guard, until, said he, the owners of the boy shall come.

**124:3** And his wife said unto him, Wherefore dost thou detain in captivity this noble child, who ought rather to be set at liberty, and wait upon thee?

**124:4** For she wished to see me in desire of sin, and I was ignorant concerning all these things.

**124:5** Then said he to his wife, It is not the custom of the Egyptians to take away that which belongeth to others before proof is given.

**124:6** This he said concerning the merchant, and concerning me, that I must be imprisoned.

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