Quotes about Betrayal
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
— Genesis 38:24
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
— Genesis 38:25
She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
— Genesis 39:12
When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,
— Genesis 39:13
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
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
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
— Genesis 39:20
For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
— Genesis 40:15
The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.
— Genesis 40:23