Genesis 31:48
And 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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
49The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other.
Cross References
Genesis 31:23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.
Deuteronomy 3:16And to the tribes of Ruben and Cad I gave of the land of Galaad as far as the torrent Amen, half the torrent, and the confines even unto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:
Joshua 22:27But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.
Joshua 22:34And the children of Ruben, and the children of Cad called the altar which they had built, Our testimony, that the Lord is God.
Judges 10:3To him succeeded Jair the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty 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 →