Genesis 31:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Before Rachel left, she stole the household idols while Laban was out shearing his sheep.

Cross References

Genesis 24:38

Instead, go back to the land where I was born and find a wife for my son from among my relatives.”

Genesis 31:20

Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not saying that he intended to leave.

Genesis 31:30

I can understand why you were eager to return to your father, but why did you have to steal my idols?

Genesis 31:32

If you find that any one of us has taken your idols, I'll have that person killed. Let your relatives be witnesses. Show me what belongs to you, and you can take it back.” Jacob did not realize that Rachel had stolen the household idols.

Genesis 31:34

She had already hidden them in the cushion she used as a saddle and was sitting on it. Laban searched everywhere and did not find them.

Genesis 31:35

Rachel said, “Father, please don't be angry with me for not getting up; I am having my period.” Laban kept on searching, but still did not find the idols.

Genesis 35:2

Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was travelling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.

Genesis 38:13

Tamar found out that her father-in-law Judah was going to Timnah to shear his sheep.

2 Samuel 13:23

Two years later, Absalom's servants were cutting wool from his sheep in Baal-Hazor near the town of Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons to be there.

2 Kings 23:24

Josiah got rid of every disgusting person and thing in Judah and Jerusalem—including magicians, fortune-tellers, and idols. He did his best to obey every law written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the LORD's temple.

Ezekiel 21:21

When the Babylonian king stands at that signpost, he will decide which way to go by shaking his arrows, by asking his idols, and by carefully looking at the liver of a sacrificed animal.

Hosea 3:4

It will also be a long time before Israel has a king or before sacrifices are offered at the temple or before there is any way to get guidance from God.

Joshua 24:2

Then Joshua told everyone to listen to this message from the LORD, the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the River Euphrates, and they worshipped other gods. This continued until the time of your ancestor Terah and his two sons, Abraham and Nahor.

1 Samuel 15:23

Rebelling against God or disobeying him because you are proud is just as bad as worshipping idols or asking them for advice. You refused to do what God told you, so God has decided that you can't be king.”

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal put a statue in his bed. She put goat hair on its head and dressed it in some of David's clothes.

1 Samuel 25:2

Nabal was a very rich man who lived in Maon. He owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, which he kept at Carmel. His wife Abigail was sensible and beautiful, but he was from the Caleb clan and was rough and mean.