New American Standard Bible 1995

Genesis 31:45-52

45Then Jacob took 1a stone and set it up as a pillar.

46Jacob said to his 2kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

47Now Laban 3called it 4Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it 5Galeed.

48Laban said, “6This heap is a witness between 7you and me this day.” Therefore it was named Galeed,

49and 8 9Mizpah, for he said, “May the Lord watch between 10you and me when we are 11absent one from the other.

50If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, see, 12God is witness between 13you and me.”

51Laban said to Jacob, “Behold this heap and behold the pillar which I have set between 14you and me.

52This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

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Notes

1. Genesis 31:45 Gen 28:18; Josh 24:26, 27 ↩
2. Genesis 31:46 Lit brothers ↩
3. Genesis 31:47 Josh 22:34 ↩
4. Genesis 31:47 I.e. the heap of witness, in Aram ↩
5. Genesis 31:47 I.e. the heap of witness, in Heb ↩
6. Genesis 31:48 Josh 24:27 ↩
7. Genesis 31:48 Lit me and you ↩
8. Genesis 31:49 Lit the Mizpah; i.e. the watchtower ↩
9. Genesis 31:49 Judg 11:29; 1 Sam 7:5, 6 ↩
10. Genesis 31:49 Lit me and you ↩
11. Genesis 31:49 Lit hidden ↩
12. Genesis 31:50 Jer 29:23; 42:5 ↩
13. Genesis 31:50 Lit me and you ↩
14. Genesis 31:51 Lit me and you ↩

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