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Gen 31:34 — Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found [them] not.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

had taken		Gen 31:17,19
furniture		"The word, car, rendered ""furniture,"" properly denotes ""a large round pannier,"" placed one on each side of a camel, for a person, especially women, to ride in. It is a hamper, like a cradle, having a back, head, and sides, like a great chair. Moryson describes them as ""two long chairs like cradles, covered with red cloth, to hang on the two sides of the camel."" Hanway calls them kedgavays, which ""are a kind of covered chairs, which the Persians hang over their camels in the manner of panniers, and are big enough for one person to sit in."" Thevenot, who calls then counes, says that they lay over them a cover, which keeps then both from the rain and sun; and Maillet describes them as covered cages, hanging on each side of a camel. The late Editor of Calmet has furnished a correct delineation of these cars, as seen on one side of a camel, copied from Dalton's Prints of Egyptian Figures."
searched		Heb. felt.

Correlating Passages

had taken

	Gen 31:17	Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
	Gen 31:19	And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that [were] her father's.

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Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 31:34," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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