Genesis 31:19 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁹ Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ 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)

¹⁹ Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Now, while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the household’s divine images that belonged to her father.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

Genesis 31:19 Cross References

Genesis 24:38

but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.’

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

Genesis 31:30

And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

Any one with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.

Genesis 31:35

And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched, but did not find the household gods.

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;

Genesis 38:13

And when Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

2 Samuel 13:23

After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

2 Kings 23:24

Moreover Josiah put away the mediums and the wizards and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver.

Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.

Judges 18:31

So they set up Micah's graven image which he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

1 Samuel 25:2

And there was a man in Maon, whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.