Genesis 31:48
And Laban said: “This tomb will be a witness between me and you this day.” (And for this reason, its name has been called Gilead, that is, ‘Tomb of Witness.’)
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49“May the Lord consider and judge between us, when we will have withdrawn from one another.
Cross References
Genesis 31:23And taking his brothers with him, he pursued him for seven days. And he overtook him at Mount Gilead.
Deuteronomy 3:16And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad, I gave from the land of Gilead as far as the torrent Arnon, one half of the torrent and its confines, even to the torrent Jabbok, which is along the border of the sons of Ammon,
Joshua 22:27but as a testimony between us and you, and between our descendants and your progeny, so that we may serve the Lord, and so that it may be our right to offer holocausts, and victims, and peace offerings, and so that tomorrow your sons may not say to our sons: ‘You have no part in the Lord.’
Joshua 22:34And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad called the altar that they had built: Our testimony that the Lord himself is God.
Judges 10:3After him succeeded Jair, a Gileadite, who judged Israel for 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 →