Genesis 31:30
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New International Version (©1984)
Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
I can understand your feeling that you must go, and your intense longing for your father's home. But why have you stolen my gods?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Now you have left for your father's home because you were so homesick. But why did you steal my gods?"

King James Bible
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

American King James Version
And now, though you would needs be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

American Standard Version
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Bible in Basic English
And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?

Darby Bible Translation
And now that thou must needs be gone, because thou greatly longedst after thy father's house, why hast thou stolen my gods?

English Revised Version
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou didst earnestly long after thy father's house; yet why hast thou stolen my gods?

World English Bible
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

Young's Literal Translation
'And now, thou hast certainly gone, because thou hast been very desirous for the house of thy father; why hast thou stolen my gods?'

Geneva Study Bible

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Wesley's Notes

31:30 Wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? - Foolish man! to call those his gods that could be stolen! Could he expect protection from them that could neither resist nor discover their invaders? Happy are they who have the Lord for their God. Enemies may steal our goods, but not our God.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:22-35 God can put a bridle in the mouth of wicked men, to restrain their malice, though he do not change their hearts. Though they have no love to God's people, they will pretend to it, and try to make a merit of necessity. Foolish Laban! to call those things his gods which could be stolen! Enemies may steal our goods, but not our God. Here Laban lays to Jacob's charge things that he knew not. Those who commit their cause to God, are not forbidden to plead it themselves with meekness and fear. When we read of Rachel's stealing her father's images, what a scene of iniquity opens! The family of Nahor, who left the idolatrous Chaldees; is this family itself become idolatrous? It is even so. The truth seems to be, that they were like some in after-times, who sware by the Lord and by Malcham, Zep 1:5; and like others in our times, who wish to serve both God and mammon. Great numbers will acknowledge the true God in words, but their hearts and houses are the abodes of spiritual idolatry. When a man gives himself up to covetousness, like Laban, the world is his god; and he has only to reside among gross idolaters in order to become one, or at least a favourer of their abominations.


Genesis 31:19 When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the household idols that were her father's.
Joshua 24:2 Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.
Judges 18:24 He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what do I have besides? So how can you say to me, 'What is the matter with you?'" (NASB ©1995)

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And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

my gods. 19 Ex 12:12 Nu 33:4 Jud 6:31 18:24 1Sa 5:2-6 2Sa 5:21 Isa 37:19 46:1,2 Jer 10:11 43:12

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