Genesis 39:16
She kept the loincloth beside her until her husband, Joseph’s master, came home.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
In Context
15As soon as he heard me scream loudly, he left his loincloth with me and ran outside!”
Cross References
Psalms 37:32Those who are evil wait in ambush for righteous people in order to kill them as they walk by.
Jeremiah 9:3Yahweh replied to me, “They use their tongues to tell [MET] lies like people shoot arrows with bows. It is because they tell lies that they have become more powerful in this land, and they do not know me.
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 →