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The Book of Jubilees, also known as 'Little Genesis' or 'Kufale', is a pseudepigraphal text of the Old Testament that rewrites the history of Genesis and part of Exodus, with emphasis on the division of time into jubilees and weeks of years. It is canonical only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and preserved entirely in Ge'ez. The book was originally written in Hebrew around the 2nd century BC and is cited by the Early Church Fathers.

Jubilees

Chapter 39

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And Jacob dwelt in the land of the sojourning of his father, in the land of Canaan.

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These are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old when they took him to the land of Egypt, and Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, and chief cook, brought him.

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And he placed Joseph over all his house, and the blessing of the Lord came to the house of the Egyptians because of Joseph, and the Lord prospered him in everything he did.

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And the Egyptians entrusted everything into the hands of Joseph; because they saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord prospered him in everything he did.

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And Joseph's appearance was handsome, and his master's wife lifted up her eyes and saw Joseph, and she desired him and asked him to lie with her.

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But he did not yield his soul, and he remembered the Lord and the words that Jacob, his father, used to read from among the words of Abraham, that no man should commit fornication with a woman who has a husband; because for him death was ordained in heaven before the Most High God, and the sin shall be engraved against him in the eternal books before the Lord for all time.

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And Joseph remembered these words and refused to lie with her.

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And she asked him for a year, but he refused and did not listen.

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But she embraced him and seized him in the house to force him to lie with her, and closed the doors of the house and seized him; but he left his garment in her hands and broke through the door and fled from her presence.

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And the woman saw that he would not lie with her, and she slandered him in the presence of his lord saying: "Your Hebrew servant, whom you love, tried to force me to lie with him, and it came to pass when I raised my voice that he fled and left his garment in my hands when I seized him, and he broke through the door."

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And the Egyptian saw Joseph's garment and the broken door, and heard his wife's words, and put Joseph in prison in the place where those whom the king imprisoned were kept prisoners.

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And he was there in prison; and the Lord gave Joseph favor in the sight of the chief of the prison guards and compassion before him, because he saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made everything he did prosper.

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And he entrusted all things into his hands, and the chief of the prison guards did not watch him, because Joseph did everything according to the Lord God. And he remained there for two years.

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And in those days Pharaoh, king of Egypt, was angry with his two eunuchs. Against the chief cupbearer, and against the chief baker, and he put them in prison, in the house of the chief cook, in the prison where Joseph was kept.

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And the chief of the prison guards appointed Joseph to serve them; and he served before them.

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And they both dreamed a dream, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, and they told Joseph.

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And as Joseph interpreted, so it happened to them. Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his post and the chief baker he killed, as Joseph interpreted to them.

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But the chief cupbearer forgot Joseph in the prison, although he had told him what would happen to him, and did not remember to inform Pharaoh as Joseph had told him, because he forgot.

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