Instead you must go to my father’s house and to my family, and take a wife for my son.’
Genesis 31:19 - Tree of Life Version But while Laban went to shear his flocks, Rachel stole the idols 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. |
Instead you must go to my father’s house and to my family, and take a wife for my son.’
while Jacob stole the heart from Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.
So now, when you up and left because you really missed your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”
Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In front of our relatives, identify whatever is yours that is with me, and take it back.” (But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
(Now Rachel had taken the idols, put them in the camel’s saddlebag and sat on them.) So Laban felt around the entire tent but did not find them.
She said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for I am having the way of women.” So he searched but did not find the idols.
So Jacob said to his household and to everyone who was with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Cleanse yourselves and change your clothes.
Then Tamar was told, “Look! Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his flocks.”
It came about, after two full years, that Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
Moreover, Josiah got rid of the necromancers and the mediums, the teraphim and the idols, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem—in order to confirm the words of the Torah that were written in the scroll that Hilkiah the kohen found in the House of Adonai.
For Bnei-Yisrael will remain for many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.
Then Joshua said to all the people: “Thus says Adonai, God of Israel: ‘From ancient times your fathers—Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor—lived beyond the River and worshipped other gods.
So they set them up Micah’s carved image that he had made, all the time that the House of God was in Shiloh.
For rebellion is like the sin of divination and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Since you have rejected Adonai’s word, He has also rejected you as king.”
Then Michal took a household idol, laid it in the bed, put a quilt of goats’ hair at the head and covered it with a cloth.
Now there was a man in Maon, whose business was in Carmel, and the man was so wealthy, he had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.