Genesis 31:19

New Century Version

While Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep, Rachel stole the idols that belonged to him.

Cross References

Genesis 24:38

Instead, you must go to my father’s people and to my family. There you must get a wife for my son.’

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.

Genesis 31:30

I know you want to go back to your home, but why did you steal my idols?”

Genesis 31:32

If you find anyone here who has taken your idols, that person will be killed! Your relatives will be my witnesses. You may look for anything that belongs to you and take anything that is yours.” (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen Laban’s idols.)

Genesis 31:34

Rachel had hidden the idols inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. Although Laban looked through the whole tent, he did not find them.

Genesis 31:35

Rachel said to her father, “Father, don’t be angry with me. I am not able to stand up before you because I am having my monthly period.” So Laban looked through the camp, but he did not find his idols.

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.

Genesis 38:13

Tamar learned that Judah, her father-in-law, was going to Timnah to cut the wool from his sheep.

2 Samuel 13:23

Two years later Absalom had some men come to Baal Hazor, near Ephraim, to cut the wool from his sheep. Absalom invited all the king’s sons to come also.

2 Kings 23:24

Josiah destroyed the mediums, fortune-tellers, house gods, and idols. He also destroyed all the hated gods seen in the land of Judah and Jerusalem. This was to obey the words of the teachings written in the book Hilkiah the priest had found in the Temple of the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:21

The king of Babylon has come to where the road divides, and he is using magic. He throws lots with arrows and asks questions of his family idols. He looks at the liver of a sacrificed animal to learn where he should go.

Hosea 3:4

In the same way Israel will live many days without a king or leader, without sacrifices or holy stone pillars, and without the holy vest or an idol.

Joshua 24:2

Then Joshua said to all the people, “Here’s what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you: ‘A long time ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River. Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, worshiped other gods.

Judges 18:31

The people of Dan set up the idols Micah had made as long as the Holy Tent of God was in Shiloh.

1 Samuel 15:23

Disobedience is as bad as the sin of sorcery. Pride is as bad as the sin of worshiping idols. You have rejected the Lord’s command. Now he rejects you as king.”

1 Samuel 19:13

Then Michal took an idol, laid it on the bed, covered it with clothes, and put goats’ hair at its head.

1 Samuel 25:2

A man in Maon who had land at Carmel was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was cutting the wool off his sheep at Carmel.