Genesis 31:30

And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

29It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

31And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:19Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

Numbers 10:30But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.

Judges 6:31But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar.

1 Samuel 5:2They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and put it by the side of Dagon.

Isaiah 37:19And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

Jeremiah 10:11This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:26-36

Laban's Pursuit after Jacob. ( b. c. 1739.) 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword? 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? 28… Read the whole commentary →

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