³⁰ And he saith, `For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

⁵² this heap `is' witness, and the standing pillar `is' witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me -- for evil;

⁴⁴ and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

⁴⁵ And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up `for' a standing pillar;

⁴⁶ and Jacob saith to his brethren, `Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

⁴⁷ and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.

⁴⁸ And Laban saith, `This heap `is' witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;

²⁷ but a witness it `is' between us and you, and between our generations after us, to do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, and your sons do not say hereafter to our sons, Ye have no portion in Jehovah.

²⁸ `And we say, And it hath been, when they say `so' unto us, and unto our generations hereafter, that we have said, See the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made -- not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice -- but a witness it `is' between us and you.

²⁷ And Joshua saith unto all the people, `Lo, this stone is against us for a witness, for it hath heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He hath spoken with us, and it hath been against you for a witness, lest ye lie against your God.'