Quotes about Deception
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
— Genesis 39:14
When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
— Genesis 39:15
So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.
— Genesis 39:16
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
— Genesis 39:17
but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
— Genesis 39:18
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
— Genesis 39:19
When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.
— Genesis 41:21
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
— Genesis 42:9
“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
— Genesis 42:12
But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.
— Genesis 42:31
As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.
— Genesis 42:35
“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”
— Genesis 44:15