Genesis 31:34

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 31:17 : 17 So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.
  • Gen 31:19 : 19 While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

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  • Gen 31:17-20
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    17 So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

    18 He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

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

    20 Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.

  • Gen 31:30-33
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    30 Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

    31 “I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban.“I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.

    32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

    33 So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

  • Gen 31:35-37
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    35 Rachel said to her father,“Don’t be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period.” So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.

    36 Jacob became angry and argued with Laban.“What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban.“What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?

    37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

    10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

  • 4 So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • Gen 31:25-27
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    25 Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

    26 “What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob.“You’ve deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!

    27 Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?

  • 14 Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 29:16-17
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    16 (Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

    17 Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

  • 12 Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

  • Gen 30:2-3
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    2 Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

    3 She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

  • 12 When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

  • Gen 30:14-15
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    14 At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah,“Give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

    15 But Leah replied,“Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?”“All right,” Rachel said,“he may go to bed with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

  • 29 (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

  • Gen 29:24-25
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    24 (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)

    25 In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”

  • 42 But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

  • 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem

  • 1 Jacob’s Flight from Laban Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining,“Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father’s expense!”

  • 25 The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

  • 6 “Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied,“He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

  • 34 “Agreed!” said Laban,“It will be as you say.”