And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, the land of Canaan; these are the generations of Jacob.
39:3
ወሤሞ ፡ ለዮሴፍ ፡ ዲበ ፡ ኵሉ ፡ ቤቱ ።
波提乏立約瑟管理他的全家；因約瑟的緣故，主的祝福臨到那埃及人的家，主使他所行的一切都亨通。
And he set Joseph over all his house, and the blessing of the Lord came upon the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph, and the Lord prospered him in all that he did.
And the Egyptian committed everything into the hands of Joseph; for he saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord prospered him in all that he did.
39:5
ወዮሴፍሰ ፡ ሠናይ ፡ ራእዩ ፡ ወላሕይ ፡ ጥቀ ፡ ራእዩ ።
約瑟的容貌俊美，極其秀麗。
And Joseph's appearance was comely and very beautiful was his appearance, and his master's wife lifted up her eyes and saw Joseph, and she loved him, and besought him to lie with her.
But he did not surrender his soul, and he remembered the Lord and the words which Jacob, his father, used to read from amongst the words of Abraham, 2 that no man should commit fornication with a woman who hath a husband; that for him the punishment of death hath been ordained in the heavens before the Most High God, and the sin will be recorded against him in the eternal books continually before the Lord.
And the woman saw that he would not lie with her, and she calumniated him in the presence of his lord, saying: "Thy Hebrew servant, whom thou lovest, sought to force me so that he might lie with me; and it came to pass when I lifted up my voice that he fled and left his garment in my hands when I held him, and he brake through the door. "
39:11
ወርእየ ፡ ግብጻዊ ፡ ልብሰ ፡ ዮሴፍ ፡ ወማዕፆ ፡ ስቡረ ።
那埃及人看見約瑟的衣服和那被衝破的門。
And the Egyptian saw the garment of Joseph and the broken door, and heard the words of his wife, and cast Joseph into prison into the place where the prisoners were kept whom the king imprisoned.
39:12
ወሀሎ ፡ ህየ ፡ ውስተ ፡ ሞቅሕ ።
約瑟就被關在那監牢裏。
And he was there in the prison; and the Lord gave Joseph favour in the sight of the chief Footnotes
And he committed all things into his hands, and the chief of -the prison guards knew of nothing that was with him, 1 for Joseph did everything, and the Lord perfected it.
And he remained there two years. 2 And in those days Pharaoh, king of Egypt, was wroth against his two eunuchs, against the chief butler and against the chief baker, and he put them in ward in the house of the chief cook, 3 in the prison where Joseph was kept.
But the chief butler forgot Joseph in the prison, although he had informed him what would befall him, and did not remember to inform Pharaoh how Joseph had told him for he forgot. Footnotes