Genesis 39:15

As soon as he heard me scream loudly, he left his loincloth with me and ran outside!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.

In Context

14she called the household servants. She said to them, “Look! This Hebrew man that my husband brought to us is ◄insulting/trying to do something disgraceful to► us! He came into my room and tried to ◄rape me/make me have sex [EUP] with him►, but I screamed loudly.

16She kept the loincloth beside her until her husband, Joseph’s master, came home.

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Cross References

Psalms 64:6because we have planned very well the crime that we are going to commit!” No one can fully understand what people can think and plan!

Matthew Henry on Genesis 39:14-19

13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, 14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice: 15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out. 16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home. 17 And she spake unto… Read the whole commentary →

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