Genesis 31
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Genesis 31:43-53

43Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

44Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us.”

45So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.

46Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.

47Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.

48Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed

49and also Mizpah, for he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.

50If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”

51Laban also said to Jacob, “Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me.

52This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm.

53The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor — the gods of their father  — will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

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