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Genesis 31:30

Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

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ASV

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

KJV

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְעַתָּה֙ve.'a.Tahand nowH6258 →
הָלֹ֣ךְha.Lokhcertainly <to go>H1980 →
הָלַ֔כְתָּha.Lakh.tayou have goneH1980 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
נִכְסֹ֥ףnikh.Sofcertainly <to long for>H3700 →
נִכְסַ֖פְתָּהnikh.Saf.tahyou longedH3700 →
לְבֵ֣יתle.Veitfor [the] household ofH1004 →
אָבִ֑יךָ'a.Vi.khafather yourH1 →
לָ֥מָּהLa.mah<to> why?H4100 →
גָנַ֖בְתָּga.Nav.tadid you stealH1589 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
אֱלֹהָֽי׃'e.lo.Haigods myH430 →

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Jeremiah 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”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.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.Genesis 31:19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.Judges 18:24He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”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.Judges 6:31But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”2 Samuel 5:21There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.Isaiah 46:1–2Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.Exodus 12:12On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.Numbers 33:4who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.Jeremiah 43:12I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.Isaiah 37:19They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.1 Samuel 5:2–6carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.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.Numbers 10:30“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”1 Thessalonians 2:17Brothers, although we were torn away from you for a short time (in person, not in heart), our desire to see you face to face was even more intense.2 Samuel 13:39And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.

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