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Genesis 31:19

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

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ASV

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

KJV

And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְלָבָ֣ןve.la.Vanand LabanH3837 →
הָלַ֔ךְha.Lakhhe had goneH1980 →
לִגְזֹ֖זlig.Zozto shearH1494 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
צֹאנ֑וֹtzo.Nosheep hisH6629 →
וַתִּגְנֹ֣בva.tig.Noand she stoleH1589 →
רָחֵ֔לra.ChelRachelH7354 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הַתְּרָפִ֖יםha.te.ra.Fimthe teraphimH8655 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
לְאָבִֽיהָ׃le.'a.Vi.ha[belonged] to father herH1 →

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1 Samuel 19:13Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.Genesis 31:30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”Hosea 3:4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.Genesis 35:2So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.Judges 17:5Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”Genesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.Judges 18:14–24Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”Judges 17:4–5So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.Genesis 31:32If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.Zechariah 10:2For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.2 Kings 23:24Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.Judges 18:31So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.Joshua 24:2And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Genesis 38:12After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.Genesis 24:38but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’

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