Genesis 31:44-52 ▼

44 And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it has been for a witness between me and you.”

45 And Jacob takes a stone, and lifts it up [for] a standing pillar;

46 and Jacob says to his brothers, “Gather stones,” and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

47 and Laban calls it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob has called it Galeed.

48 And Laban says, “This heap [is] witness between me and you today”; therefore has he called its name Galeed;

49 Mizpah also, for he said, “YHWH watches between me and you, for we are hidden from one another;

50 if you afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters—there is no man with us—see, God [is] witness between me and you.”

51 And Laban says to Jacob, “Behold, this heap, and behold, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and you;

52 this heap [is] witness, and the standing pillar [is] witness, that I do not pass over this heap to you, and that you do not pass over this heap and this standing pillar to me—for evil;