¹⁹ When Laban had gone to shear his sheep,^(A) Rachel stole her father’s household gods.^(B)

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.

³⁵ Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence;^(D) I’m having my period.^(E)” So he searched but could not find the household gods.^(F)

¹⁴ Then the five men who had spied out the land of Laish^(A) said to their fellow Danites, “Do you know that one of these houses has an ephod,^(B) some household gods and an image overlaid with silver?^(C) Now you know what to do.”

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.

²⁴ Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists,^(A) the household gods,^(B) the idols and all the other detestable^(C) things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the Lord.

⁴ 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)