And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”
But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
“Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him,
lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
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