but will go to my father’s family and to my clan to take a wife for my son.”
Genesis 31:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep [possibly to the feast of sheepshearing], and Rachel stole her father's household gods. American Standard Version (1901) Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s. Common English Bible Now, while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the household’s divine images that belonged to her father. Catholic Public Domain Version At that time, Laban had gone to shear the sheep, and so Rachel stole her father's idols. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols. |
but will go to my father’s family and to my clan to take a wife for my son.”
And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, not telling him that he was fleeing.
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s family #– #but why have you stolen my gods? ’
If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.’ Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.
She said to her father, ‘Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my period.’ So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
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.
Tamar was told, ‘Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.’
Two years later, Absalom’s sheep-shearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
In addition, Josiah eradicated the mediums, the spiritists, household idols, images, and all the abhorrent things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this in order to carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the Lord’s temple.
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.
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
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.
So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image that he had made, and it was there as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.
Then Michal took the household idol and put it on the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
A man in Maon had a business in Carmel; he was a very rich man with three thousand sheep and one thousand goats and was shearing his sheep in Carmel.