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But Joseph refused. He said, “My master trusts me with everything in his house. He has given me responsibility for everything here. My master has made me almost equal to him in his house. I cannot sleep with his wife! That is wrong! It is a sin against God.”

10 The woman talked with Joseph every day, but he refused to sleep with her.

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But he refused.(A) “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.(B) No one is greater in this house than I am.(C) My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”(D) 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused(E) to go to bed with her or even be with her.

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