“So she kept his garment with her until his master came home. (Notice how Potiphar’s wife clings to this piece of intentionally falsified evidence; knowing full well that in order to purport this lie she is wholly dependent upon the false significance she attributes to it as her wicked plan takes shape and is ultimately cemented in her mind with bitter resolve.) Then she spoke to him with words like these, saying, “The Hebrew servant (here she narcissistically denies Joseph’s human dignity and individual identity by not using his name, for surely in his being Potiphar’s most beloved and esteemed servant, his name was well known by all; and yet she does go to great pains to assert his Hebrew identity in her attempt to foster ‘fear of otherness’ in her audience by propagating xenophobic sentiments in one of the first instances of outright anti-Semitism we find in the Bible) whom you brought to us (already she is projecting blame and setting the stage to gaslight Potiphar into doubting his own mind concerning his discernment when hiring and promoting Joseph) came in to me to mock me (funnily enough her experience of events in this regard is not wholly untrue from her perspective: the upright behaviour of a righteous man can have an exceedingly gratingly obnoxious effect upon the wicked as they perceive it to be an affront to their own unrighteous manner of doing things; any human heart created by God inherently understands that it was created for righteousness and seeing it in another can have the effect of mockery of one’s choice to prefer and align oneself with wickedness); so it happened, as I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me and fled outside.” (Again the victim identity is assumed by the perpetrator; at this second reiteration of this lie she is no doubt at this point already self-deceived and truly begins to see herself as the wronged party – injured pride is a very, very pliable and exceedingly useful tool in the hands of the enemy: deception in every shape and form quickly follows.) So it was, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, “Your servant did to me after this manner,” that his anger was aroused. (It is important to note the subtle distinctions and inferences that the author of these inspired Scriptures makes – he very specifically notes that the words which roused Potiphar’s anger are not described as merely “an account” or “information he came to hear of” or “words of truth” or “a random report”, no, the author very clearly denotes these words as “the words which his wife spoke to him” in order that a factual account can clearly correlate her sinful actions – as manifest within these lying words – with Potiphar’s unrighteous anger. So much so in fact that should judgment ultimately be cast, all ensuing injustices, pain and affliction suffered by the righteous can be traced back to her and effectively lain at her door.) Then Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined (there is a peculiar, almost comical type of principle seen reiterated here; young Joseph is so favoured among men that if he were a servant he would be a King’s servant, if he were a prisoner, he would be a King’s prisoner; ultimately of course we come to see the beautiful manifestation of his eternal identity as a bondservant of Christ : the very King of kings – Romans 1:1, a slave to Righteousness – Romans 6:18, a prisoner of Hope 😃 – Zechariah 9:12). And he was there in the prison (the next season in the life of our Joseph announced).”

“¹⁶So she kept his garment with her until his master came home. ¹⁷Then she spoke to him with words like these, saying, “The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came in to me to mock me; ¹⁸so it happened, as I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me and fled outside.”

¹⁹So it was, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, “Your servant did to me after this manner,” that his anger was aroused. ²⁰Then Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison.”

– Genesis 39:16-20 (NKJV)