Genesis 31:48

And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore the name of it was called Galeed,

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In The King James Version

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

In Context

47And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

49and Mizpah. For he said, May LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another,

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Cross References

Genesis 31:23And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

Deuteronomy 3:16And I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the sons of Ammon,

Joshua 22:27but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of LORD before him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, that your sons may n

Joshua 22:34And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad called the altar [Ed]. For, [they said], it is a witness between us that LORD is God.

Judges 10:3And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

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 →

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