Genesis 31:48
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day; therefore called he its name Galed;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
47And Laban called it Yegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galed.
Cross References
Genesis 31:23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him a seven days' journey; and he overtook him at the mount of Gilead.
Deuteronomy 3:16And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gil'ad even unto the brook Arnon, the land within the river and that adjoining, even unto the brook Yabbok, the border of the children of 'Ammon;
Joshua 22:27But it shall be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the Lord before him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our, peace-offerings; and that your children may not say in time to come to our children, Ye have no portion in the Lord.
Joshua 22:34And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar [“'Ed”]; for [they said] it is a witness between us that the Eternal is God.
Judges 10:3And after him arose Yair, the Gil'adite, and judged Israel twenty and 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 →