For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband when he returned home:

And she placeth his garment near her, until the coming in of his lord unto his house.

And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.

She left his garment by her, until his master came home.

As a proof, therefore, of her fidelity, she retained the cloak, and she showed it to her husband, when he returned home.

Retinuit autem vestimentum ejus apud se, donec veniret dominus ejus ad domum suam.

And she laid up his garment by her,.... As a proof of what she laid to his charge, and as a testimony against him:
until her lord came home; or until his lord came home, for the pronoun refers to Joseph, and so Jarchi interprets it; who either was gone a journey, or gone to court that day, being an officer of Pharaoh's, or to the public place where the festival was kept that day, if it was such an one.