“He clearly had inappropriate intentions,” says woman in form-fitting spandex, left holding the clothing of a man who ran away.
EGYPT — Potiphar’s wife accused Joseph of ogling her sports bra and hot pants this week after repeated attempts to seduce the household administrator ended with him leaving his garment in her hand and running out of the house.
According to household sources, her interest in fitness began shortly after she noticed that Joseph was handsome and well-built. Her subsequent training program consisted largely of approaching him in workout clothes and suggesting an activity unrelated to exercise.
“Lie with me,” she said.
Joseph refused, explaining that his master had entrusted him with the household and withheld nothing from him except his wife.
“How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” he asked.
She clarified that the sports bra was from the premium collection.
Joseph indicated that his objection was not financial.
Despite her daily advances, he refused to sleep with her or remain in her company. His avoidance strategy included completing his duties promptly and declining every invitation to “help with stretches.”
The situation deteriorated when she overheard him muttering a Gillis-style complaint after another encounter.
“She’s dressing like a whore and asking me to commit adultery,” he said. “I am trying to manage the household.”
She emerged from behind a doorway.
“Why are you looking at what I’m wearing?”
“You keep approaching me.”
“A woman should be able to wear workout clothes without being propositioned.”
“I have not propositioned you.”
“Well, someone has made this inappropriate.”
Days later, Joseph entered the house to perform his duties while none of the other servants were inside. Potiphar’s wife caught him by his garment and again demanded that he lie with her.
Joseph left the garment in her hand and fled outside.
She immediately summoned the household servants.
“This Hebrew has been ogling me in my workout clothes,” she announced. “Then he came in here to lie with me. I screamed, and he ran away.”
Her account omitted the invitation, the grabbing, and whose idea the proposed encounter had been.
Asked about Joseph’s earlier efforts to avoid her, she explained that his refusal to remain in the same room demonstrated that he knew his behavior was inappropriate.
She kept his garment beside her until Potiphar returned, then repeated the accusation.
“Look what your servant has done,” she said, presenting the clothing Joseph had abandoned while escaping her grip.
Potiphar burned with anger and had Joseph confined in the prison where the king’s prisoners were held.
The garment was accepted as evidence that Joseph had been there. The possibility that he had been trying very hard not to remain there went unexplored.
At press time, the Lord was still with Joseph—a development neither the accusation nor the prison sentence had managed to prevent.
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