Genesis 31:19
And Laban has gone to shear his flock, and Rachel steals the teraphim which her father has;
Literal Standard 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
Cross References
Genesis 31:30And now, you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for the house of your father; why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 31:34And Rachel has taken the teraphim, and puts them in the furniture of the camel, and sits on them; and Laban feels all the tent, and has not found;
Genesis 38:13And it is declared to Tamar, saying, “Behold, your husband’s father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock”;
Judges 17:4And he gives back the money to his mother, and his mother takes two hundred pieces of silver, and gives them to a refiner, and he makes them a carved image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah.
Judges 18:14And the five men, those going to traverse the land of Laish, answer and say to their brothers, “Have you known that in these houses there is an ephod, and teraphim, and carved image, and molten image? And now, know what you do.”
1 Samuel 19:13and Michal takes the teraphim, and lays [it] on the bed, and she has put the mattress of goats’ [hair for] his pillows, and covers [it] with a garment.
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 →