Genesis 31:34
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
34 [a]Meanwhile Rachel had taken the household images, put them inside the camel’s saddlebag, and seated herself upon them. When Laban had rummaged through her whole tent without finding them,(A)
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1 Samuel 19:13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
13 Michal took the teraphim[a] and laid it in the bed, putting a tangle of goat’s hair at its head and covering it with a blanket.(A)
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- 19:13 Teraphim: a life-sized image of a household god in human form; cf. also note on Gn 31:19. Elsewhere in the Deuteronomistic History, use of teraphim is condemned (15:23; 2 Kgs 23:24).
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