Genesis 39:18

18 And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.

Genesis 39:18 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 39:18

And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried
For help from the servants, and frightened at his insolent attempt: that he left his garment with me, and fled out;
and then she brought it forth, and showed him it.

Genesis 39:18 In-Context

16 And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.
17 Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me;
18 And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.
19 And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.
20 And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.
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