Genesis 31:46
And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones, and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
47And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Cross References
Genesis 31:32With whomever thou find thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brothers discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:54And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread, and tarried all night on the mountain.
Joshua 4:20And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
2 Samuel 18:17And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:44-55
Jacob's Covenant with Laban. ( b. c. 1739.) 43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? 44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his… Read the whole commentary →