Bible Strands
Genesis 39:18
but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Potiphar’s wife addresses her husband immediately after recounting her fabricated accusation, describing the slave’s actions at the exact moment she claims he attempted to assault her.
The words — וַ/יַּעֲזֹ֥ב (va/i.ya.'a.Zo) = and/ he left [H5800]; וַ/יָּ֥נָס (va/i.Ya.nos) = and/ he fled [H5127].
The thread — The discarded garment motif recurs in Genesis 38:28 when the midwife ties a scarlet thread on a baby’s wrist, and the legal principle of leaving a pledge garment is codified in Exodus 22:26-27.
Why it lands — The text records the wife’s claim that the slave abandoned his cloak and escaped, establishing the physical evidence she uses to justify her accusation and trigger her husband’s anger.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.