See how easily a lie works! Potipher's wife, having been rejected by Joseph and being left with his garment when he fled from her, easily tells a lie with a story supported by the evidence of the garment. Joseph, she says, had come in to lie with her and when she called out with a loud voice, "he leaveth his garment and fleeth."

What reason would Potipher have to doubt her words? And could he have given Joseph a fair trial without doubting her?

Only if it was the way of the Egyptians to hold that a person was always innocent until proven guilty, no matter how close the relationship is which is involved.

We do well to hold a presumption of innocence in our minds when someone is accused and at the very least, hear the other person's account.