Genesis 39:15

15 When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his garment with me and ran outside."

Genesis 39:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 39:15

And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice
and cried
He attempting to ravish her, as she would have it understood, but afraid, lest upon her outcry those that were in the house should come in to her assistance, and seize on him: that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out:
but why should he strip himself of his garment, and leave that behind him? he might have fled with it.

Genesis 39:15 In-Context

13 When she realized that he had left his garment in her hands and run outside,

14 she summoned the men of her house and said to them, "Look, my husband brought us a Hebrew to ridicule us. He came to me to lie down with me, but I screamed.

15 When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his garment with me and ran outside."

16 She kept his garment with her until Joseph's master came home,

17 and she told him the same thing: "The Hebrew slave whom you brought to us, to ridicule me, came to me;