OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 31:35

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She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

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Verse 35. Vain. For who would imagine, that a woman should treat in this manner the objects of her father’s adoration? Calmet.—It would hence appear, that she did not herself adore them, unless fear overcame her religion. Bible.

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