And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass about this time,.... About a week, or a month, or rather a year, as Aben Ezra thinks, after she first began her solicitations to him. According to Josephus (r), it was a public…
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Here is, I. A most shameful instance of impudence and immodesty in Joseph's mistress, the shame and scandal of her sex, perfectly lost to all virtue and honour, and not to be mentioned, nor thought…
The False Accusation
8. knoweth not, &c. Here, as in Gen 39:39, the marg., knoweth not with me what is, gives the meaning of the passage.
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