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Genesis 31:48

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

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Genesis 31:48 in other translations

And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:

Genesis 31:48 · American Standard Version

Genesis 31:48 in context

  1. 46Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
  2. 47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
  3. 48Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
  4. 49and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
  5. 50If 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.”