THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 31:47 in context
Genesis 31:44–50
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Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
45
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 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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If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic.
- “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.
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