Holy Scripture
Genesis 31:19
A church father on this verse
“This was included not by chance but for us to know how they still clung to their ancestral habits and showed great devotion to the household gods. I mean, consider how [Rachel] went to so much trouble as to steal nothing else of her father's than the household gods alone and did it without her husband noticing; Jacob…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
19And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.
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In context
17And Jacob arose and took his wives and his children up on the camels;
18and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
— Genesis 31:19 —
20And Jacob hid the matter from Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away.
21And he departed himself and all that belonged to him, and passed over the river, and went into the mountain Gilead.