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    "chapter": 39
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    "n": 39,
    "bookSlug": "genesis-woh",
    "bookCode": "GEN-WOH",
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    "title": "Genesis 39 — Yosef in Potifar's house, the accusation, and the prison",
    "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra (Westminster Leningrad)","sourceLicense":"Public Domain","sourceUrl":"http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml","sourceAccessedVia":"sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Genesis.39","glossaryVersion":"2.38.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.7.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7 (translator)"],"editor":"claude-opus-4-7 (editor)","reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-05-29T12:59:43Z","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-7 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-05-29T12:59:43Z","verdicts":[{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:1","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: sris Par'oh sar ha-tabbachim. ASV-baseline 'officer'/'captain of the guard' retained; saris ambiguity (court-official vs eunuch, in tension with the married Potifar of v7) and sar ha-tabbachim alternatives documented in apparatus, not the surface. appliesTo scope-edits adding GEN-WOH-39:1 to both central entries verified; scope-only, no rationale change.","citations":["BDB p. 710 (saris); HALOT s.v. saris; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 270 (Akkadian sa resi, court-official vs eunuch); Speiser AB Genesis 1964 p. 303 (sar ha-tabbachim, 'chief steward'/'captain of the guard')"]},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:2","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: va-yehi YHWH et-Yosef; YHWH (H3068) rendered per corpus convention. The YHWH-frame observation is recorded in apparatus as named documentary-critical scholarship only; no WoH synthesis on the surface or in the rationale. Both divine names rendered as the text distributes them.","citations":["von Rad Genesis OTL 1972 pp. 365-367; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 pp. 60-63 (Gen 39's YHWH-distinctiveness in the cycle)"]},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:3","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed; uncontested narrative frame, YHWH twice. ASV-baseline surface, no divergence; no commentary required."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:4","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (matza chen, va-yafqidehu al beito); uncontested ASV-baseline rendering, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:5","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed; va-yevarekh YHWH... birkat YHWH. Uncontested ASV-baseline; YHWH-frame instance, no surface divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:6","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: yefeh-to'ar vifeh mar'eh (masc.), verbatim the Gen 29:17 Rachel formula (fem.). Lexemes H3303/H8389/H4758 correct. ASV-baseline rendered identically to 29:17 so the Hebrew echo survives in English; the inherited-beauty / object-of-desire reading is apparatus-only, not surface. Defensible.","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 272; Alter Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 223 (the gender-reversal); cf. Gen 29:17 (Rachel)"]},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:7","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (va-tissa... et-eineha; shikhvah immi); uncontested ASV-baseline, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:8","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (va-ye'ma'en); uncontested ASV-baseline refusal-speech, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:9","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: ve-chatati le-Elohim; Elohim (H430) on Yosef's lips rendered exactly as the source has it. Divine names not harmonized to the chapter's YHWH-frame; the narrator/character split documented as named scholarship without adjudication. No lens leakage.","citations":["Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 pp. 60-63; Friedman The Bible with Sources Revealed 2003 ad loc. (narrator-YHWH / character-Elohim)"]},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:10","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (yom yom); uncontested ASV-baseline, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:11","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (la'asot melakhto); uncontested ASV-baseline, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:12","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (va-titpesehu be-vigdo; va-yanas); uncontested ASV-baseline, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:13","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed; uncontested ASV-baseline narrative continuation, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:14","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: ish Ivri le-tzachek banu. ha-Ivri (H5680) and Piel le-tzachek (H6711) correct; ASV-baseline 'a Hebrew' / 'to mock us' keeps the hostility without committing the surface to the sexual register. Sense and Yitzchaq wordplay apparatus-only. NOTE: governing sibling entry's 'bidirectional cross-reference' claim is partly unfulfilled (see glossaryReview); does not affect the verse rendering.","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 273; HALOT s.v. tz-ch-q (Piel); cf. central metzacheq-conjugal-vs-contested-disambiguation (Gen 26:8 polysemy-map naming Gen 39:14,17)"]},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:15","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (harimoti koli); uncontested ASV-baseline, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:16","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (va-tannach bigdo); uncontested ASV-baseline, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:17","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: ha-eved ha-Ivri... le-tzachek bi. The accusation sharpened to 'Hebrew servant'; same Piel as v14. ASV-baseline 'to mock me' retained; sense apparatus-only. Defensible.","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 273; Hamilton NICOT Genesis 18-50 1995 pp. 463-464"]},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:18","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed; uncontested ASV-baseline, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:19","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (va-yichar appo); uncontested ASV-baseline, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:20","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: beit ha-sohar; ketiv asurei / qere asirei. Qere asirei ('the king's prisoners') correctly translated per the qere-rule; defective-vs-plene, no semantic divergence. ASV-baseline 'prison' retained; sohar etymology (round-house / Egyptian loanword / by-form) documented without adjudication, distinguished from the Gen 37 bor. Defensible.","citations":["HALOT s.v. sohar/sahar; BDB p. 690; Speiser AB Genesis 1964 p. 304; von Rad Genesis OTL 1972 p. 366"]},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:21","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: va-yet elav chased (natah + solitary chesed, H2617, not the v-emet pair). ASV-baseline 'showed kindness unto him' retained; covenant-loyalty range (Glueck/Sakenfeld) and the natah...chesed idiom apparatus-only. YHWH-frame refrain correctly rendered. Defensible.","citations":["Glueck Hesed in the Bible 1967; Sakenfeld The Meaning of Hesed in the Hebrew Bible HSM 17 1978; HALOT s.v. chesed; TDOT V:44-64"]},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:22","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed (sar beit ha-sohar; kol ha-asirim); uncontested ASV-baseline, governed by beit-ha-sohar entry, no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-39:23","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: ba'asher YHWH ito... YHWH matzliach. Closing YHWH-frame rendered exactly; mirrors vv2-3, binding house- and prison-sections. ASV-baseline, no divergence, no lens leakage.","citations":["Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 pp. 60-63 (the YHWH-frame closing the chapter)"]}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"beit-ha-sohar-prison-round-house","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. sohar/sahar; BDB p. 690; Speiser AB Genesis 1964 p. 304; Redford VTSup 20 1970 pp. 23-24"],"reasoning":"Independently verified: sohar (H5470) is a hapax restricted to the Yosef cycle; the three-way etymology debate (round-house / Egyptian loanword / by-form) is documented without adjudication and distinguished from the Gen 37 bor and the Gen 40:15/41:14 beit ha-bor. ASV-baseline 'prison' surface correct. Central housing justified by Gen 40-41 recurrence. inferred calibration correct (functional sense direct; etymology unsettled). No lens leakage."},{"glossary_id":"chesed-solitary-covenant-kindness","status":"approve","citations":["Glueck Hesed in the Bible 1967; Sakenfeld HSM 17 1978; TDOT V:44-64; HALOT s.v. chesed"],"reasoning":"Verified as a genuine companion to, not a duplicate of, chesed-v-emet-steadfast-love-and-truth (which exists and governs the fixed pair only). Solitary chesed at v21 (natah+chesed) takes ASV-baseline 'kindness' on the surface; Glueck/Sakenfeld covenant-loyalty range documented without synthesis. Central housing justified (~245 HB occurrences). inferred calibration correct. No lens leakage."},{"glossary_id":"yosef-cycle-divine-name-alternation-yhwh-elohim","status":"approve","citations":["Wellhausen Prolegomena 1883; von Rad Genesis OTL 1972 pp. 365-367; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 pp. 60-63; Redford VTSup 20 1970 pp. 251-253; Friedman 2003 ad loc."],"reasoning":"THE LENS-RISK ITEM, scrutinized closely. The rationale records ONLY the named documentary-critical reading (J-frame around an Elohistic novella) with explicit non-adjudication, and states the project-specific divine-name reading is wiki-reserved. NO WoH synthesis (Elohim-as-civilization / YHWH-as-individual) appears in the rationale or the surface; both names render as the MT distributes them. inferred is correct, NOT speculative: the distribution is direct, the source-critical reading is a reasonable named-scholarship observation, never asserted as project fact. No downgrade warranted."},{"glossary_id":"yefeh-toar-beauty-formula-rachel-yosef","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 pp. 203, 272; Alter Five Books of Moses 2004 pp. 154, 223; Hamilton NICOT Genesis 18-50 1995 p. 462"],"reasoning":"Verified: Gen 39:6 (masc.) is verbatim the Gen 29:17 Rachel formula (fem.); only Rachel and Yosef bear it in Genesis. Lexemes H3303/H8389/H4758 accurate. ASV-baseline rendered identically across both verses so the echo survives in English. Inherited-beauty / gender-reversal reading is recognized scholarship, apparatus-only. inferred correct. No lens leakage."},{"glossary_id":"le-tzachek-mockery-piel-gen39","status":"approve","citations":["central entry metzacheq-conjugal-vs-contested-disambiguation rationale, Cross-references paragraph (v2.38.0) — now names le-tzachek-mockery-piel-gen39 by id; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 273"],"reasoning":"Re-verified after the v2.38.0 corrective pass: the central Gen 26:8 entry's Cross-references paragraph now names this sibling overlay entry by its id, and the overlay still names the central entry by id, so the cross-reference is genuinely bidirectional per the corpus's prose-by-id sibling convention. Only the pointer was added — no change to either entry's decision, wohChoice, rationale substance, claim_type, appliesTo, or the translation surface; central 2.38.0 / chapter pin 2.38.0 / overlay 1.7.0 are coherent. Lexical basis (Piel le-tzachek H6711, hostile/innuendo register, ASV-baseline 'to mock', inferred) stands; the original revise flag is cleared."},{"glossary_id":"saris-court-official-eunuch-ambiguity / sar-ha-tabbachim-captain-of-the-guard / ha-ivri-hebrew-etymology (scope-edits)","status":"approve","citations":["BDB p. 710 (saris); Speiser AB Genesis 1964 p. 303 (sar ha-tabbachim); central appliesTo arrays inspected directly"],"reasoning":"Verified scope-only: saris and sar-ha-tabbachim appliesTo now ['GEN-WOH-37:36','GEN-WOH-39:1']; ha-ivri Gen 39 refs normalized to GEN-WOH-39:14/39:17 (its other legacy refs Gen 14:13/40:15/41:12/43:32 deliberately left in bare form, correct per the targeted brief). No rationale, wohChoice, or claim_type change in any of the three."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:1",
        "text": "And Yosef was brought down to Mitsrayim; and Potifar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Yishme'elim, who had brought him down thither."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:2",
        "text": "And YHWH was with Yosef, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:3",
        "text": "And his master saw that YHWH was with him, and that YHWH made all that he did to prosper in his hand."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:4",
        "text": "And Yosef found favor in his sight, and he ministered unto him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:5",
        "text": "And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that YHWH blessed the Egyptian's house for Yosef's sake; and the blessing of YHWH was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:6",
        "text": "And he left all that he had in Yosef's hand; and he knew not aught that was with him, save the bread which he did eat. And Yosef was beautiful in form, and fair to look upon."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:7",
        "text": "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Yosef; and she said, Lie with me."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:8",
        "text": "But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not what is with me in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my hand."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:9",
        "text": "He is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against Elohim?"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:10",
        "text": "And it came to pass, as she spake to Yosef day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:11",
        "text": "And it came to pass about this time, that he went into the house to do his work; and there was none of the men of the house there within."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:12",
        "text": "And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:13",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:14",
        "text": "that she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:15",
        "text": "and it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled, and got him out."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:16",
        "text": "And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:17",
        "text": "And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:18",
        "text": "and it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled out."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:19",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:20",
        "text": "And Yosef's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:21",
        "text": "But YHWH was with Yosef, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:22",
        "text": "And the keeper of the prison committed to Yosef's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-39:23",
        "text": "The keeper of the prison looked not to anything that was under his hand, because YHWH was with him; and that which he did, YHWH made it to prosper."
      }
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