Genesis 31:48
Good News Translation
Laban said to Jacob, "This pile of rocks will be a reminder for both of us." That is why that place was named Galeed.

New Revised Standard Version
Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he called it Galeed,

Contemporary English Version
Laban said to Jacob, "This pile of rocks will remind us of our agreement." That's why the place was named Galeed.

New American Bible
Laban said, “This mound will be a witness from now on between you and me.” That is why it was named Galeed—

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

This heap.

Joshua 24:27 And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Galeed.

Genesis 31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.

Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

Deuteronomy 3:16 And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the land of Galaad as far as the torrent Arnon, half the torrent, and the confines even unto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:

Joshua 13:8,9 With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the servant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the east side. . . .

Context
Jacob's Covenant with Laban
47And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language. 48And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.49The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.…
Cross References
Genesis 21:30
But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

Joshua 22:27
But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.

Joshua 24:27
And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Genesis 31:47
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