Chuàngshìjì 39:11

11 Yǒu yī tiān , Yūesè jìn wū lǐ qù bàn shì , jiā zhòng rén méiyǒu yī gè zaì nà wū lǐ ,

Chuàngshìjì 39:11 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 39:11

And it came to pass about this time
About a week, or a month, or rather a year, as Aben Ezra thinks, after she first began her solicitations to him. According to Josephus ^F18, it was a public festival, at which women used to attend; but she excused herself, pretending illness; and so Jarchi takes it to be some noted day at the idol's temple, to which all used to go; but she pretended she was sick, and could not go, knowing that Joseph would not be there, but at home, and therefore judged this a fit opportunity to attack him once more: and so it was, that [Joseph] went into the house to do his business:
to inspect the accounts, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan paraphrase it, and settle them: and [there was] none of the men of the house there within;
being all gone to the public festival, or however there were none in that part of the house where Joseph was.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Antiqu. l. 2. c. 4. sect. 3.

Chuàngshìjì 39:11 In-Context

9 Zaì zhè jiā lǐ méiyǒu bǐ wǒ dà de . bìngqiĕ tā méiyǒu liú xià yíyàng bù jiāo gĕi wǒ , zhǐ liú xià le nǐ , yīnwei nǐ shì tāde qīzi . wǒ zĕn néng zuò zhè dà è , de zuì shén ne ,

10 Hòulái tā tiāntiān hé Yūesè shuō , Yūesè què bù tīng cóng tā , bù yǔ tā tóng qǐn , yĕ bù hé tā zaì yī chǔ .

11 Yǒu yī tiān , Yūesè jìn wū lǐ qù bàn shì , jiā zhòng rén méiyǒu yī gè zaì nà wū lǐ ,

12 Fùrén jiù lā zhù tāde yīshang , shuō , nǐ yǔ wǒ tóng qǐn ba . Yūesè bǎ yīshang diū zaì fùrén shǒu lǐ , pǎo dào waìbiān qù le .

13 Fùrén kànjian Yūesè bǎ yīshang diū zaì tā shǒu lǐ pǎo chū qù le ,