Genesis 39:7
h And after many days his mistress 'cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Cross References
Genesis 6:2The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took themselves wives of all which they chose.
Job 31:1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.
Proverbs 2:16That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
Proverbs 6:26For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.
Proverbs 7:15Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.
Ezekiel 16:25At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 39:2-7
The History of Joseph. ( b. c. 1721.) 1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. 2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he… Read the whole commentary →