Genesis 31:19
At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.
Cross References
Genesis 31:30Suppose 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 31:34She 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 38:13And it was told Thamar that her father in law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.
Judges 17:4And 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 18:14The 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 19:13And 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.
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 →