but go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
Genesis 31:19 - The Scriptures 2009 And when Laḇan had gone to shear his sheep, Raḥĕl stole the house idols that were her father’s. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep [possibly to the feast of sheepshearing], and Rachel stole her father's household gods. American Standard Version (1901) Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s. Common English Bible Now, while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the household’s divine images that belonged to her father. Catholic Public Domain Version At that time, Laban had gone to shear the sheep, and so Rachel stole her father's idols. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols. |
but go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
And Ya‛aqoḇ deceived Laḇan the Aramean, because he did not inform him that he was about to flee.
“And now you have gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you steal my mighty ones?”
With whomever you find your mighty ones, do not let him live. In the presence of our brothers, see for yourself what is with me and take it with you. For Ya‛aqoḇ did not know that Raḥĕl had stolen them.
Now Raḥĕl had taken the house idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laḇan searched all about the tent but did not find them.
And she said to her father, “Let it not displease my master that I am unable to rise before you, for the way of women is with me.” And he searched but did not find the house idols.
And Ya‛aqoḇ said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign mighty ones that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments.
And it was reported to Tamar, saying, “See, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
And it came to be, after two years, that Aḇshalom had sheep-shearers in Ba‛al Hatsor, which is beside Ephrayim, and Aḇshalom invited all the sons of the sovereign.
And also, Yoshiyahu put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, and the household mighty ones and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Yehuḏah and in Yerushalayim, in order to establish the words of the Torah which were written in the book that Ḥilqiyahu the priest found in the House of יהוה.
“For the sovereign of Baḇel shall stand at the parting of the way, at the fork of the two ways, to practise divination. He shall shake the arrows, he shall ask the household idols, he shall look at the liver.
For many days the children of Yisra’ĕl are to remain without sovereign and without prince, and without slaughtering, and without pillar, and without shoulder garment or house idols.
And Yehoshua said to all the people, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Long ago your fathers dwelt beyond the River – Teraḥ, the father of Aḇraham and the father of Naḥor. And they served other mighty ones.
And they set up for themselves the carved image of Miḵah, which he had made, all the days that the house of Elohim was in Shiloh.
“For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of יהוה, He also does reject you as sovereign.”
And Miḵal took the household idol and laid it in the bed, and put a cover of goats’ hair for his head, and covered it with a garment.
Now there was a man in Ma‛on and his work was in Karmel, and the man was very great. And he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he came to be shearing his sheep in Karmel.