1 Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief executioner, an Egyptian, bought him with a surety from the Arabs who had taken him down there. For he saw that he was handsome, and (he intended) to practice sodomy with him; and immediately a (divine) decree was issued against him, and his testicles dried up, and he became impotent 2 But the Memra of the Lord was at Joseph’s assistance, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his Egyptian master 3 His master saw that the Memra of the Lord was at his assistance, and the Lord caused everything he did to prosper in his hand 4 And Joseph found mercy in his eyes, and he waited upon him; and he appointed him administrator over his house, and he put all that he owned in his hand 5 And from the time that he appointed him administrator over his house and over all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house because of the merit of Joseph. And the blessing of the Lord was on all that he owned, in the house and in the field 6 He left all that he owned in Joseph’s hand, and with him there he concerned himself with nothing except his wife with whom he lay. And Joseph was handsome in figure and lovely in appearance 7 After these events his master’s wife set her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Lie with me” 8 But he refused to approach her, and he said to his master’s wife, “Behold, with me here, my master concerns himself with nothing in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my hand 9 He is no greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except yourself, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great evil and become guilty before the Lord?” 10 And when she spoke with Joseph each day, he did not listen to her to lie with her, lest he be declared guilty with her on the day of the great judgment in the world to come⁠a 11 On a certain day he came into the house to study his reckoning tablets, and there was not one of the members of the household there in the house 12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled into the street 13 And when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled into the street 14 she threw the white of an egg on the bed, called the members of the household, and said, “See the effusion of semen which this fellow has scattered—the Hebrew man whom your master brought to jest with us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice 15 And when he heard that I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment with me and fled into the street” 16 She put the garment down beside her until his master came home 17 Then she spoke to him in these words, saying, “The Hebrew slave whom you brought to us came to me to jest with me 18 But when I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment with me and fled into the street” 19 And when his master heard the words his wife spoke to him, namely, “This is what your servant did to me,” he became very angry 20 Joseph’s master took counsel from the priests who discovered that it was the white of an egg. So he did not put him to death, but he put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were imprisoned. And he remained there in the prison 21 But the Memra of the Lord was at the assistance of Joseph, and he extended kindness to him and caused him to win favor in the eyes of the governor of the prison 22 The governor of the prison placed all the prisoners who were in the prison in Joseph’s charge, and whatever was done there, it was he who ordered its doing 23 It was not necessary for the governor of the prison to guard Joseph as is the custom with all prisoners, because he saw no fault in him, because the Memra of the Lord was at his assistance, and whatever he did the Lord made successful