10 It happened that as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he didn't listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well.
But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
She sits at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
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Commentary on Genesis 39 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 39
At this chapter we return to the story of Joseph. We have him here,
Gen 39:1-6
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Gen 39:7-12
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Gen 39:13-18
Joseph's mistress, having tried in vain to make him a criminal, now endeavours to represent him as one; so to be revenged on him for his virtue. Now was her love turned into the utmost rage and malice, and she pretends she cannot endure the sight of him whom awhile ago she could not endure out of her sight. Chaste and holy love will continue, though slighted; but sinful love, like Amnon's to Tamar, is easily changed into sinful hatred.
Gen 39:19-23
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