Genesis 31
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Genesis 31:44-54

44So now, come, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”

45So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar,

46and Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they took the stones and made a pile. Then they ate there on the pile.

47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha and Jacob called it Gal-ed.

48And Laban said, “This pile is a witness between me and you today.” That is why its name is Gal-ed,

49or Mizpah, for he said, “Let Adonai keep watch between you and me when we are out of one another’s sight.

50If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, though no one is with us, look! God is the witness between you and me.”

51Laban said further to Jacob, “Behold, this pile, and this pillar which I’ve set up between you and me:

52this pile serves as a witness, that I won’t pass by this pillar to go to you, and that you won’t pass by this pile and this pillar to go to me—with evil intent.

53May the God of Abraham and the gods of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob also made an oath by the fear of his father Isaac.

54Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and he invited his relatives to eat bread. So they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.

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