OET interlinear GEN 39:6

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

וַ⁠יַּעֲזֹ֣ב כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל⁠וֹ֮ בְּ⁠יַד־יוֹסֵף֒

(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_left all/each/any/every which/who to=him/it in,the_hand_of Yōşēf/(Joseph)'s and=not knowing with=him/it anything that/for/because/then/when if the,food which/who he/it ate and=he/it_was Yōşēf/(Joseph) handsome_of form and,handsome_of appearance )

See how you translated a similar idiom gave into his hand in verse 4. Alternate translation: [In fact, he gave Joseph the responsibility of managing everything that he had, so that]

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-exceptions

וְ⁠לֹא־יָדַ֤ע אִתּ⁠וֹ֙ מְא֔וּמָה כִּ֥י אִם־הַ⁠לֶּ֖חֶם אֲשֶׁר־ה֣וּא אוֹכֵ֑ל

and=not knowing with=him/it anything (Some words not found in UHB: and,he_left all/each/any/every which/who to=him/it in,the_hand_of Yōşēf/(Joseph)'s and=not knowing with=him/it anything that/for/because/then/when if the,food which/who he/it ate and=he/it_was Yōşēf/(Joseph) handsome_of form and,handsome_of appearance )

If it would appear in your language that the author was making a statement and then contradicting it, you could reword this as a positive statement. Potiphar did more than decide what to eat; that was just one example of personal decisions which were all he had to concern himself with. Alternate translation: [the only things he needed to decide about in his household were personal things like what food he wanted to eat]

Note 3 topic: writing-background

וַ⁠יְהִ֣י יוֹסֵ֔ף יְפֵה־תֹ֖אַר וִ⁠יפֵ֥ה מַרְאֶֽה

and=he/it_was Yōşēf/(Joseph) handsome_of form and,handsome_of appearance

Some languages have a conjunction such as Now that introduces background information and a change of topic. For other languages a paragraph break is enough (without a conjunction). Alternate translation: [Joseph was muscular and good-looking] or [Now Joseph was a very handsome young man]