Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”
For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
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