OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 39:12

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She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

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Verse 12. Out. He could easily have wrested it from her. But he would not do any thing that might seem disrespectful, nor claim what her impure hands had touched. Menochius.

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