Genesis 31
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Genesis 31:43-53

43And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have borne? 44Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they ate there upon the heap. 47And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.12 48And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 49And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.3 50If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee. 51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast between me and thee; 52This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. 53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 31:47 Jegarsahadutha: that is, The heap of witness, Chaldee ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 31:47 Galeed: that is, The heap of witness, Heb. ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 31:49 Mizpah: that is, A beacon, or, watchtower ↩

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Revised Webster's Bible — 1833 — Public Domain