Genesis 31:19
Good News Translation
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and during his absence Rachel stole the household gods that belonged to her father.

New Revised Standard Version
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

Contemporary English Version
Before Rachel left, she stole the household idols while Laban was out shearing his sheep.

New American Bible
Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

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Genesis 31:30,32 Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods? . . .

Genesis 35:2 And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.

Joshua 24:2 And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.

Judges 17:4,5 And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and a molten God, which was in the house of Michas. . . .

Judges 18:14-24,31 The five men, that before had been sent to view the land of Lais, said to the rest of their brethren: You know that in these houses there is an ephod and theraphim, and a graven and a molten god: see what you are pleased to do. . . .

1 Samuel 19:13 And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails.

Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

These might have been images devoted to superstitious or idolatrous purposes, as they are termed gods by Laban, in ver.

30. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render it, tzalmanaya, 'images;' the LXX. and Theodoret, [eidolon <1497,] 'idols;' Aquilla, [morphomata,] 'figures;' and the Persian, asterlabha, 'astrolabes.'

Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
18And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan. 19At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.20And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.

Genesis 31:30
Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?

Genesis 31:34
She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,

Genesis 31:35
She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.

Genesis 35:2
And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.

Judges 17:5
And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

Judges 18:17
But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went about to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim, and the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six hundred valiant men waiting not far off.

1 Samuel 15:23
Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king.

1 Samuel 19:13
And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

2 Kings 23:24
Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the figures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had been in the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might perform the words of the law, that were written in the book, which Helcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails.

Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

Genesis 31:18
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