Genesis 31:19

Modern English Version

When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that were her father’s.

Cross References

Genesis 24:38

But you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

Genesis 31:20

Jacob also deceived Laban the Syrian by not telling him that he was fleeing.

Genesis 31:30

Now you surely have gone away because you longed desperately after your father’s house, yet why have you stolen my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

But anyone with whom you find your gods, let him not live. In the presence of our kinsmen, point out what I have that is yours and take it.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle and sat on them. Laban searched the entire tent, but could not find them.

Genesis 31:35

She said to her father, “Let not my lord be displeased that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is on me.” So he searched, but he did not find the household idols.

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. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Genesis 38:13

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

2 Samuel 13:23

Two full years later, the sheepshearers of Absalom were in Baal Hazor, near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all of the sons of the king.

2 Kings 23:24

Moreover, Josiah disposed of the mediums, the soothsayers, the teraphim, the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he established the words of the law that 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 images, he looks in the liver.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice and without a standing stone, and without an ephod and teraphim.

Joshua 24:2

Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Long ago your fathers—Terah father of Abraham and Nahor —lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods.

Judges 18:31

So they displayed Micah’s graven image that he had made, for the whole 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 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 idol and laid it in the bed, and put a braided goat hair pillow for its head and covered it with clothes.

1 Samuel 25:2

Now there was a man in Maon whose work was in Carmel. He was a rich man with three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.