Genesis 31:30

And now, you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for the house of your father; why have you stolen my gods?”

Literal Standard Version

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

29my hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father last night has spoken to me, saying, Take heed to yourself from speaking with Jacob from good to evil.

31And Jacob answers and says to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest you violently take away your daughters from me;

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Cross References

Genesis 31:19And Laban has gone to shear his flock, and Rachel steals the teraphim which her father has;

Numbers 10:30And he says to him, “I do not go; but I go to my land and to my family.”

Judges 6:31And Joash says to all who have stood against him, “You, do you plead for Ba‘al? You—do you save him? He who pleads for him is put to death during the morning; if he [is] a god he pleads against him himself, because he has broken down his altar.”

1 Samuel 5:2and the Philistines take the Ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon.

Isaiah 37:19so as to put their gods into fire—for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone—and they destroy them.

Jeremiah 10:11Thus you say to them, “The gods who have not made the heavens and earth, || They perish from the earth, || And from under these 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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