Genesis 31:19

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father's images.

Brenton Septuagint

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

18and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Chanaan.

20And Jacob hid the matter from Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:30Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Genesis 31:34And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camels' packs, and sat upon them.

Genesis 38:13And it was told Thamar his daughter-in-law, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Thamna, to shear his sheep.

Judges 17:4But he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave + 17:4 Gr. it.them to a silversmith, and he made it a graven and a molten image; and it was in the house of Michaias.

Judges 18:14And the five men who went to spy out the land of Laisa answered, and said to their brethren, Ye know that there is in this place an ephod, and theraphin, and a graven and a molten image; and now consider what ye shall do.

1 Samuel 19:13And Melchol took + 19:13 Heb. teraphim, probably such images as were put on monuments.images, and laid them on the bed, and she put the + 19:13 כבר liver, has evidently been read here for כביר a quilt, or perhaps a pillow.liver of a goat by his head, and covered them 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 →

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