Genesis 31:19
At that time, Laban had gone to shear the sheep, and so Rachel stole her father’s idols.
Catholic Public Domain 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 was not willing to confess to his father-in-law that he was fleeing.
Cross References
Genesis 31:30It may be that you desired to go to your own, and that you longed for the house of your father. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 31:34she quickly hid the idols under the camel’s bedding, and she sat upon them. And when he had searched the entire tent and found nothing,
Genesis 38:13And it was reported to Tamar that her father-in-law had gone up to Timnah to shear the sheep.
Judges 17:4And when he restored these to his mother, she took two hundred of the silver coins, and she gave them to the silversmith, so that he might make from them a molten idol and a graven image. And it was in the house of Micah.
Judges 18:14the five men, who before had been sent to consider the land of Laish, said to the rest of their brothers: “You know that in these houses there is an ephod and theraphim, and a molten idol and a graven image. Consider what it may please you to do.”
1 Samuel 19:13Then Michal took a statue, and placed it on the bed. And she placed the pelt of a goat for the hair at its head. And she covered it with 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 →