Genesis 31:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

Genesis 31:30

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Genesis 31:32

With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.

Genesis 31:35

And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim.

Genesis 35:2

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments:

Genesis 38:13

And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father in law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

2 Samuel 13:23

And it came to pass after two years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

2 Kings 23:24

Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm 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 stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

Hosea 3:4

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

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

Judges 18:31

So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

1 Samuel 19:13

And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.

1 Samuel 25:2

And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.