¹⁹ Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.^[a](A)

⁵ The man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim,^[a](A) and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.^(B)

¹⁴ Then the five men who had gone to reconnoiter the land spoke up and said to their kindred, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, and an idol overlaid with silver?^(A) Now decide what you must do!”

¹⁸ and entered the house of Micah with the priest standing there. They took the idol, the ephod, the teraphim and the metal image. When the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

²⁰ The priest, agreeing, took the ephod, the teraphim, and the idol, and went along with the troops.