Parallel Verses

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 Version

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

Holman 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.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel [went inside the house and] stole her father’s household gods.

Bible in Basic English

Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel will steal the family gods which were to her father.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.

Modern King James verseion

And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Rachel had stolen the images which were her father's.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father's images.

NET Bible

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Now, Laban, had gone, to shear his sheep, - so Rachel stole the household gods that belonged to her father,

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Laban
לבן 
Laban 
Usage: 55

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

to shear
גּזז 
Gazaz 
Usage: 15

צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

and Rachel
רחל 
Rachel 
Usage: 47

גּנב 
Ganab 
Usage: 40

the images
תּרפים 
T@raphiym 
Usage: 15

Context Readings

Jacob Flees From Laban

18 and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had gathered, his acquired livestock which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. 19 When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the household idols that were her father’s. 20 And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.



Cross References

Genesis 31:30

Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.

Hosea 3:4

For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols.

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;

Genesis 31:32

The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmen point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver.

Joshua 24:2

Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.

Judges 17:4-5

So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made them into a graven image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.

Judges 18:14-24

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

Judges 18:31

So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.

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