14 she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could. 15 When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.” 16 So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.
Genesis 39:14–16
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