Genesis 31:39-55 ▼

39 That which was torn by animals I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. You demanded payment from me whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

40 I was consumed by the heat during the day and by the frost at night, and sleepless nights.

41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one whom Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my harsh treatment and my hard work, and rebuked you last night.|

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 So now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between the two of us. |And he said to him, |Look, there is no one with us; see, God is witness between me and you.|

45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up as a standing-stone.

46 Jacob said to his relatives, |Gather stones.|So they took stones and made a mound. They ate there by the mound.

47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

48 Laban said, |This mound is a witness between me and you today.| Therefore it was named Galeed

49 and Mizpah, for he said, |God watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

50 If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us; see, God is witness between me and you.|

51 Laban said to Jacob, |See this mound, and see the standing-stone, which I have set between me and you.

52 May this mound be a witness, and the standing-stone be a witness, that I will not pass over this mound to you, and that you will not pass over this mound and this standing-stone to me, to do 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 on the mountain, and called his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and stayed all night on 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.