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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 39:11/אבן עזרא על בראשית ל״ט:י״א
אויהי כהיום הזה. משבוע אחד מהיום שהחלה לדבר לו שכבה עמי, או מחודש אחד, או אחר שנה תמימה והוא הנכון בעיני:
1AND IT CAME TO PASS ON A CERTAIN DAY. On the same day that she had first asked him to lay with her.5 It was on this same day a week later, or a month later or a full year later. The latter appears correct to me.
בלעשות מלאכתו. מלאכת הבית או הממון כי פקיד היה על הכל, ודרש ואין איש דברי יחיד:
2TO DO HIS WORK. To supervise the housework or to oversee his master’s wealth, for Joseph was in charge of everything. The Midrash pertaining to and there was none of the men6, 9, Joseph wanted to have intercourse with Potiphar’s wife but found himself impotent (Weiser and Krinsky according to one interpretation). Or the reference may be to Soteh 36b, that he wanted to have intercourse with Potiphar’s wife but his father’s image appeared before him and as a result Joseph refrained from sinning. Thus and there was none of the men of the house there within but his father’s image was there. is an individual opinion.7