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Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
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Verse 14. To do. Whether we must take them by force or by craft. Bible.—It seems they had a premeditated design to seize them. Calmet.
teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
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