So you must promise to go to my father’s country. Go to my family and choose a wife for my son.’
Genesis 31:19 - Easy To Read Version At this time, Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep. While he was gone, Rachel went into his house and stole the false gods that belonged to her father. 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. |
So you must promise to go to my father’s country. Go to my family and choose a wife for my son.’
Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean. He did not tell Laban he was leaving.
I know that you want to go back to your home. That is why you left. But why did you steal the gods from my house?”
But I did not steal your gods. If you find any one here with me that has taken your gods, then that person will be killed. Your men will be my witnesses. You can look for anything that belongs to you. Take anything that is yours.” (Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen Laban’s gods.)
Rachel had hidden the gods inside her camel’s saddle, and she was sitting on them. Laban looked through the whole tent, but he did not find the gods.
And Rachel said to her father, “Father, don’t be angry with me. I am not able to stand up before you. I am having my monthly time of bleeding.” So Laban looked through the camp, but he did not find the gods from his house.
So Jacob said to his family and to all his servants, “Destroy all those foreign gods made of wood and metal that you have. Make yourselves pure. Put on clean clothes.
Tamar learned that Judah, her father-in-law, was going to Timnah to cut the wool from his sheep.
Two years later, Absalom had some men come to Baal Hazor to cut the wool from his sheep. Absalom invited all of the king’s sons to come and watch.
Josiah destroyed the mediums, [304] wizards, [305] the house gods, the idols, [306] and all the horrible things people worshiped in Judah and Jerusalem. Josiah did this to obey the Law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the Lord’s temple. [307]
This shows that the king of Babylon \{is planning the way he wants to attack that area\}. The king of Babylon has come to the place where the two roads separate. The king of Babylon has used \{magic\} signs to find the future. He shook some arrows. He asked questions from family idols. He looked at the liver {\cf2\super [161]} \{from an animal he killed\}.
In the same way, the people of Israel will continue many days without a king or a leader. They will be without a sacrifice or a memorial stone. {\cf2\super [29]} They will be without an ephod {\cf2\super [30]} or a household god.
Then Joshua spoke to all the people. He said, “I am telling you what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you:
The people of Dan set up for themselves the idol that Micah had made. That idol was there {in the city of Dan} the whole time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Refusing to obey is as bad as the sin of sorcery. [139] Being stubborn and doing what you want is like the sin of worshiping idols. You refused to obey the Lord’s command. For this reason, the Lord now refuses to accept you as king.”
Michal took the household god and put clothes on it. Then she put that statue in the bed. She also put goats’ hair on its head.
There was a very rich man living in Maon. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. That man was in Carmel taking care of some business. He went there to cut the wool from his sheep.