Genesis 31:19
Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
In Context
20And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.
Cross References
Genesis 31:30And now, [though] thou have certainly gone, because thou have been very desirous for thy father's house, [yet] why have thou stolen my gods?
Genesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them.
Genesis 38:13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep.
Judges 17:4And when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it a graven image and a molten image. And it was in the house of Micah.
Judges 18:14Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish, answered and said to their brothers, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what y
1 Samuel 19:13And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:18-25
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the… Read the whole commentary →