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Genesi 39:11

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11 Or avvenne che un giorno egli entrò in casa per fare il suo lavoro; e non c’era quivi alcuno della gente di casa;

Genesi 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F18 Antiqu. l. 2. c. 4. sect. 3.
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Genesi 39:11 In-Context

9 egli stesso non è più grande di me in questa casa; e nulla mi ha divietato, tranne che te, perché sei sua moglie. Come dunque potrei io fare questo gran male e peccare contro Dio?"
10 E bench’ella gliene parlasse ogni giorno, Giuseppe non acconsentì, né a giacersi né a stare con lei.
11 Or avvenne che un giorno egli entrò in casa per fare il suo lavoro; e non c’era quivi alcuno della gente di casa;
12 ed essa lo afferrò per la veste, e gli disse: "Giaciti meco". Ma egli le lasciò in mano la veste e fuggì fuori.
13 E quand’ella vide ch’egli le aveva lasciata la veste in mano e ch’era fuggito fuori,
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