Genesis 31:43
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Gen 31:43
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Then Laban replied to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?
Gen 31:44
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~"So now come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me."
Gen 31:45
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Then Jacob took a stone and set it up {as} a pillar.
Gen 31:46
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Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Gen 31:47
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Now Laban called it (I.e. the heap of witness, in Aram) Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it (I.e. the heap of witness, in Heb) Galeed.
Gen 31:48
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Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore it was named Galeed,
Gen 31:49
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and (Lit {the Mizpah;} i.e. the watchtower) Mizpah, for he said, "May the LORD watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.
Gen 31:50
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~"If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, {although} no man is with us, see, God is witness between you and me."
Gen 31:51
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Laban said to Jacob, "Behold this heap and behold the pillar which I have set between you and me.
Gen 31:52
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~"This 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.
Gen 31:53
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~"The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
Gen 31:54
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Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinsmen to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
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