¹⁶ The woman was very beautiful,^(A) a virgin;^(B) no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

⁷ When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,^(A)” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”

¹⁷ Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,^{(A) 18} but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

⁶ So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care;^(A) with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,^(B)

Cain and Abel

4 Adam^[a] made love to his wife^(A) Eve,^(B) and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.^[b](C) She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth^[c] a man.”