Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 31:46 in context
Genesis 31:43–49
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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?
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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.
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Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
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Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
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Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
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and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
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