Quotes about Deception
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
- Genesis 38:16
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- Genesis 38:18
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
- Genesis 38:21
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
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
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