²³ He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:

²⁴ And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it.

³ Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

²⁸ And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

²² Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

³³ I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

¹³ I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

²¹ And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

⁷ And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.

⁸ But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

⁹ So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

¹⁰ And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

¹¹ Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside.

¹² And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

¹³ And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,

¹⁴ She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;

¹⁵ And hearing it he went running out without his coat.

¹⁶ And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.

¹⁷ Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me;

¹⁸ And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.

¹⁹ And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.

²⁰ And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.

¹⁸ But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

⁴ And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.