Genesis 31:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.”
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“Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 31:19 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 24:38but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
- Genesis 31:30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
- Genesis 31:32If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
- Genesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
- Genesis 35:2So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Genesis 38:13When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- Joshua 24:2And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
- Judges 17:4So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
- Judges 17:5Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
- Judges 18:14Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
- Judges 18:31So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
- 1 Samuel 19:13Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
- 1 Samuel 25:2Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- 2 Samuel 13:23Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
- 2 Kings 23:24Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
- Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.
- Hosea 3:4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
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