³⁰ Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household.^(A) But why did you steal^(B) my gods?^(C)”

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.

⁵ Now this man Micah had a shrine,^(A) and he made an ephod^(B) and some household gods^(C) and installed^(D) one of his sons as his priest.^(E)

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.

²¹ For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots^(A) with arrows, he will consult his idols,^(B) he will examine the liver.^(C)

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)