^{36 Ref} And it is displeasing to Jacob, and he striveth with Laban; and Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, `What `is' my transgression? what my sin, that thou hast burned after me?

^{37 Ref} for thou hast felt all my vessels: what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house? set here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and they decide between us both.

^{38 Ref} `These twenty years I `am' with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten;

^{39 Ref} the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I, I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

^{40 Ref} I have been `thus': in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

^{41 Ref} `This `is' to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;

^{42 Ref} unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'

⁴³ And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, `The daughters `are' my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing `is' mine; and to my daughters -- what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?

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

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

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

^{47 Ref} and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.

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

^{49 Ref} Mizpah also, for he said, `Jehovah doth watch between me and thee, for we are hidden one from another;

^{50 Ref} if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters -- there is no man with us -- see, God `is' witness between me and thee.'

⁵¹ And Laban saith to Jacob, `Lo, this heap, and lo, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee;

^{52 Ref} 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;

^{53 Ref} the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, doth judge between us -- the God of their father,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac.

^{54 Ref} And Jacob sacrificeth a sacrifice in the mount, and calleth to his brethren to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge in the mount;

^{55 Ref} and Laban riseth early in the morning, and kisseth his sons and his daughters, and blesseth them; and Laban goeth on, and turneth back to his place.