Book of Jubilees
Anonymous
Chapter 39
About this work
A Jewish rewriting of Genesis and the opening of Exodus, presented as revelation given to Moses on Mount Sinai. The work organizes sacred history through weeks and jubilees and places particular emphasis on covenant, calendar, festivals, and observance of the Law.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Date
- Second century BC
- Origin
- Judea (probable)
- Genre
- Rewritten Scripture / Pseudepigrapha
- Textual language
- Originally Hebrew; complete text principally preserved in Ethiopic.
- Translator
- R. H. Charles
- Translation / Edition
- R. H. Charles translation, first published 1917.
And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings in the land of Canaan.
These are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old when they took him down into the land of Egypt, and Potiphar, an eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief cook bought him. 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. 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,
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,