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'And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured. And it came to pass that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph.'
The congregation looked startled. Really this was not a text which they wished their pastor to enlarge upon. There were things in the Bible that should be left in the obscurity of the Hebrew, especially when one's womenkind were within earshot. Uneasily their eyes lifted towards the bonnets behind the balcony-grating.