OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 45

Genesis 31:45

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Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

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Genesis 31:42–48

42

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

43

Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

44

Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

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Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

46

Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

47

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

48

Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

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