¹⁹ When Laban had gone to shear his sheep,^(A) Rachel stole her father’s household gods.^(B)

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)

¹⁴ Then the five men who had spied out the land of Laish^(A) said to their fellow Danites, “Do you know that one of these houses has an ephod,^(B) some household gods and an image overlaid with silver?^(C) Now you know what to do.”

¹⁸ When the five men went into Micah’s house and took^(A) the idol, the ephod and the household gods,^(B) the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

²⁰ The priest was very pleased. He took the ephod, the household gods and the idol and went along with the people.

²⁶ this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Take off the turban, remove the crown.^(A) It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low.^(B)