Genesis 31

46 Ref Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

47 Ref Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,{"Jegar Sahadutha" means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.} but Jacob called it Galeed.{"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.}

48 Ref Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

49 Ref and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

50 Ref If you will afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

52 Ref May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

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