Genesis 31:44-49 ▼

44 Come, now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and it will be a treaty between you and me.”

45 Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a sacred pillar.

46 Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they got stones and made a mound; and they ate there at the mound.

47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

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

49 and also Mizpah, for he said: “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.