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Genesis
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English: World English Bible |
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Genesis 31 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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| 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: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? |
| 44. |
Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you." |
| 45. |
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 this day." Therefore it was named Galeed |
| 49. |
and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh 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 besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you." |
| 51. |
Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. |
| 52. |
May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. |
| 53. |
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. |
| 54. |
Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. |
| 55. |
Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place. |
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