Genesis 39:12
And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
KJV
et illa, apprehensa lacinia vestimenti ejus, diceret : Dormi mecum. Qui relicto in manu ejus pallio fugit, et egressus est foras.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐπεσπάσατο αὐτὸν τῶν ἱματίων αὐτοῦ λέγουσα Κοιμήθητι μετ’ ἐμοῦ· καὶ καταλείπων τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ ἔφυγεν καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἔξω.
LXX
And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
ASV
וַ/תִּתְפְּשֵׂ֧/הוּ בְּ/בִגְד֛/וֹ לֵ/אמֹ֖ר שִׁכְבָ֣/ה עִמִּ֑/י וַ/יַּעֲזֹ֤ב בִּגְד/וֹ֙ בְּ/יָדָ֔/הּ וַ/יָּ֖נָס וַ/יֵּצֵ֥א הַ/חֽוּצָ/ה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. Matthew 5:40 For not in the matter of blows only, but of our goods also, He would have such forbearance exhibited. Wherefore He again employs the same strong figure. That is, as in the other case He commands to overcome in suffering, so here again, by allowing ourselves to be depri…
2. When therefore as well by the place, as by his garments, and by their concourse unto Him, He had delineated his character, He proceeds to bring in the prophet. For having said, Why went ye out? To see a prophet? Yea I say unto you, and more than a prophet; He goes on, For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before Your face, which shall prepare Your…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
- 1Cor 15:33 — Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
- 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- 2Tim 2:22 — Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- Eccl 7:26 — And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Ezek 16:30 — How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
- Gen 39:8 — But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
- Gen 39:10 — And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
- Mark 14:51 — And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
- Prov 1:15 — My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
- Prov 5:8 — Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
- Prov 6:5 — Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- Prov 7:13 — So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
- Prov 7:13 — So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,