Bible verse
Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
Genesis 31:48 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 31.
44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
45 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
46 and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
48 Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
49 It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
50 If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
52 This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.
KJV
And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
ASV
And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
ERV
And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
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