30 And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you (A)steal my gods?”

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30 Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household.(A) But why did you steal(B) my gods?(C)

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34 Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.

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34 Now Rachel had taken the household gods(A) and put them inside her camel’s saddle(B) and was sitting on them. Laban searched(C) through everything in the tent but found nothing.

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And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made (A)an ephod and (B)household gods, and (C)ordained[a] one of his sons, who became his priest.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:5 Hebrew filled the hand of; also verse 12

Now this man Micah had a shrine,(A) and he made an ephod(B) and some household gods(C) and installed(D) one of his sons as his priest.(E)

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23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
    and presumption is as iniquity and (A)idolatry.
Because (B)you have rejected the word of the Lord,
    (C)he has also rejected you from being king.”

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23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,(A)
    and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected(B) the word of the Lord,
    he has rejected you as king.”

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13 Michal took (A)an image[a] and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 19:13 Or a household god

13 Then Michal took an idol(A) and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head.

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21 For the king of Babylon stands (A)at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults (B)the teraphim;[a] he looks at the liver.

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  1. Ezekiel 21:21 Or household idols

21 For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots(A) with arrows, he will consult his idols,(B) he will examine the liver.(C)

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For the children of Israel (A)shall dwell many days (B)without king or prince, (C)without sacrifice or (D)pillar, without (E)ephod or (F)household gods.

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For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince,(A) without sacrifice(B) or sacred stones,(C) without ephod(D) or household gods.(E)

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For (A)the household gods (B)utter nonsense,
    and the diviners see lies;
(C)they tell false dreams
    and give empty consolation.
Therefore (D)the people wander like sheep;
    they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

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The idols(A) speak deceitfully,
    diviners(B) see visions that lie;
they tell dreams(C) that are false,
    they give comfort in vain.(D)
Therefore the people wander like sheep
    oppressed for lack of a shepherd.(E)

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