Genesis 31:19

New American Bible - revised edition

Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.

Cross References

Genesis 24:38

instead, you must go to my father’s house, to my own family, to get a wife for my son.’

Genesis 31:20

Jacob had hoodwinked Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was going to flee.

Genesis 31:30

Granted that you had to leave because you were longing for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

As for your gods, the one you find them with shall not remain alive! If, with our kinsmen looking on, you identify anything here as belonging to you, take it.” Jacob had no idea that Rachel had stolen the household images.

Genesis 31:34

Meanwhile Rachel had taken the household images, put them inside the camel’s saddlebag, and seated herself upon them. When Laban had rummaged through her whole tent without finding them,

Genesis 31:35

she said to her father, “Do not let my lord be angry that I cannot rise in your presence; I am having my period.” So, despite his search, he did not find the household images.

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him: “Get rid of the foreign gods among you; then purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Genesis 38:13

Then Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is on his way up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

2 Samuel 13:23

Two years went by. It was sheep-shearing time for Absalom in Baal-hazor near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

2 Kings 23:24

Further, Josiah purged the consultation of ghosts and spirits, with the household gods, idols, and all the other horrors to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:21

Slash to the right! turn to the left, Wherever your edge is directed!

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without king or prince, Without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or household gods.

Joshua 24:2

Joshua addressed all the people: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: In times past your ancestors, down to Terah, father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River and served other gods.

Judges 18:31

They maintained the idol Micah had made as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.

1 Samuel 15:23

For a sin of divination is rebellion, and arrogance, the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord in turn has rejected you as king.” Rejection of Saul.

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, putting a tangle of goat’s hair at its head and covering it with a blanket.

1 Samuel 25:2

There was a man of Maon who had property in Carmel; he was very wealthy, owning three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At the time, he was present for the shearing of his flock in Carmel.