A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES: FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE P/11

 

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A PURPOSEFUL LIFE, OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                  FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE

                                        PART XI 

"I, Joseph, do have such problems with coats... I have now lost my second one... I am not sure how I can get it back.... Because it is with my master Potiphar's wife.... And I cannot go back into the house to finish my duties... For, no doubt, my master's wife is very angry with me...Since I refused to do what she asked of me...I am now here in my own room in the servants' quarters.... The other servants are all back in the house.... But no one has come to see me... I am not sure why that is... Has my master's wife accused me of wrong doing before them?.... Are they, therefore, not willing to speak to me?... The only person I can hope to plead my case before is my master Potiphar... I know that he thinks favourably of me...After all, I run his household for him... He trusts me completely... But how can I tell him that his wife has made suggestions that are unacceptable to me?.... And what if she uses my coat to try and prove to him that I have behaved towards his wife in a way that is so very wrong?".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn who else Potiphar's wife shows Joseph's coat to.....

 

                  ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES 

                                            FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE

                                                                  PART XI

It seems Joseph has problems with cloaks, the first one, his many coloured coat given by his father, was used by his brothers to make their father Jacob believe Joseph has been killed by wild animals. The second cloak is being used by Potiphar's wife to accuse him of attacking her to the household servants. But she does not stop there as you can read in Genesis 39:16-18

She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. Then she told him this story: "That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."

Potiphar's wife is incensed that Joseph refused her advances and is adamant that he must pay for his "misdeeds"by accusing him to her husband of things he has not done.

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