⁷ and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”^(A)

⁸ But he refused.^(B) “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.^{(C) 9} No one is greater in this house than I am.^(D) 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?”^{(E) 10} And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused^(F) to go to bed with her or even be with her.

⁸ do not yield^(A) to them or listen to them. Show them no pity.^(B) Do not spare them or shield them.

¹¹ Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,^(A) but rather expose them.