Genesis 31:19 meaning and explanation
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Genesis 31:19, Berean Standard Bible
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Rachel steals her father's household idols as Jacob's family slips away from Paddan-aram. The Hebrew word is teraphim, small images kept in a household; the text never says what they were used for, and scholars have debated whether they were gods, tokens of inheritance, or divination tools.
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