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Genesis 31:30

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s family #– #but why have you stolen my gods? ’

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He said, ‘You took the gods I had made and the priest, and went away. What do I have left? How can you say to me, “What’s the matter with you? ” ’


When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.


You are to say this to them: ‘The gods that did not make the heavens  and the earth will perish from the earth  and from under these heavens.’


I  will kindle a fire in the temples of Egypt’s gods,  and he will burn them and take them captive. He will clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks lice off  his clothes,  and he will leave there unscathed.


They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods  but made from wood and stone  by human hands.  So they have destroyed them.


The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them off.


But Joash said to all who stood against him, ‘Would you plead Baal’s case for him? Would you save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him plead his own case because someone tore down his altar.’


Meanwhile, the Egyptians were burying every firstborn male the Lord had struck down among them, for the Lord had executed judgement against their gods.


‘I will pass through  the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. I am the Lord; I will execute judgements against all the gods of Egypt.


Jacob answered, ‘I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.


So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, ‘Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you.  Purify yourselves and change your clothes.


Joshua said to all the people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Long ago your ancestors, including Terah,  the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River Euphrates and worshipped other gods.


Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land went in and took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the silver idol,  while the priest was standing by the entrance of the city gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.


For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practise divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.


But he replied to him, ‘I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.’





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