Genesis 31:47

And Laban called it The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

In Context

46And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.

48And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 24:6And by Jazer they passed into Galaad, and to the lower land of Hodsi, and they came into the woodlands of Dan. And going about by Sidon,

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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