Testament of Joseph

Chapter 8

  1. 1 I declare, therefore, unto you, my children, that it was about the sixth hour when she departed from me; and I knelt before the Lord all day, and all the night; and about dawn I rose up, weeping
  2. 2 the while and praying for a release from her. At last, then, she laid hold of my garments, forcibly dragging me to have connexion with her.
  3. 3 When, therefore, I saw that in her madness she was holding fast to my garment, I left it behind, and fled away naked.
  4. 4 And holding fast to the garment she falsely accused me, and when her husband came he cast me into prison in his house; and on the morrow he scourged me and sent me into Pharaoh's prison.
  5. 5 And when I was in bonds, the Egyptian woman was oppressed with grief, and she came and heard how I gave thanks unto the Lord and sang praises in the abode of darkness, and with glad voice rejoiced, glorifying my God that I was delivered from the lustful desire of the Egyptian woman.