Genesis 31:19 When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household gods.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household gods.

English Standard Version
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

New American Standard Bible
When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the household idols that were her father's.

King James Bible
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.

International Standard Version
Meanwhile, Laban had been out shearing his sheep. While he was away, Rachel stole her father's personal idols.

American Standard Version
Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

Darby Bible Translation
And Laban had gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father.

Young's Literal Translation
And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;

Cross References

Genesis 31:20
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

Genesis 31:30
And now, though you would needs be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat on them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

Genesis 31:35
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before you; for the custom of women is on me. And he searched but found not the images.

Genesis 35:2
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

Judges 17:5
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 18:17
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.

1 Samuel 19:13
And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

2 Kings 23:24
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

31:1-21 The affairs of these families are related very minutely, while (what are called) the great events of states and kingdoms at that period, are not mentioned. The Bible teaches people the common duties of life, how to serve God, how to enjoy the blessings he bestows, and to do good in the various stations and duties of life. Selfish men consider themselves robbed of all that goes past them, and covetousness will even swallow up natural affection. Men's overvaluing worldly wealth is that error which is the root of covetousness, envy, and all evil. The men of the world stand in each other's way, and every one seems to be taking away from the rest; hence discontent, envy, and discord. But there are possessions that will suffice for all; happy they who seek them in the first place. In all our removals we should have respect to the command and promise of God. If He be with us, we need not fear. The perils which surround us are so many, that nothing else can really encourage our hearts. To remember favoured seasons of communion with God, is very refreshing when in difficulties; and we should often recollect our vows, that we fail not to fulfil them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18. he carried the cattle of his getting—that is, his own and nothing more. He did not indemnify himself for his many losses by carrying off any thing of Laban's, but was content with what Providence had given him. Some may think that due notice should have been given; but when a man feels himself in danger—the law of self-preservation prescribes the duty of immediate flight, if it can be done consistently with conscience.