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And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."

But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, with me here, my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand.

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

One day, however, when he went into the house to do his work, and while no one else was in the house,

she caught hold of his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside.

When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,

and when he heard me raise my voice and cry out, he left his garment beside me, and fled outside."

Then she kept his garment by her until his master came home,

but as soon as I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me, and fled outside."

When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, "This is the way your servant treated me," he became enraged.

Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

One night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own meaning.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers, who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,

within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.

On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

He restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand;

In the morning his spirit was troubled; so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Once Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard.