When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house. The abandoned cloak is the evidence that will be used against Joseph — the same kind of physical evidence (coat, robe) that has been used in the Joseph story before: the coat dipped in goat blood, the cloak in Potiphar's wife's hands. The application: the evidence of a garment in the wrong hands has become the recurring instrument of injustice in the Joseph narrative.

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