Genesis 31:44
And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it has been for a witness between me and you.”
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45And Jacob takes a stone, and lifts it up [for] a standing pillar;
Cross References
Genesis 21:22And it comes to pass at that time that Abimelech speaks—Phichol also, head of his host—to Abraham, saying, “God [is] with you in all that you are doing;
Genesis 31:48And Laban says, “This heap [is] witness between me and you today”; therefore has he called its name Galeed;
Deuteronomy 31:19And now, write this song for yourselves, and teach it [to] the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song is to Me for a witness against the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:26“Take this Scroll of the Law, and you have set it on the side of the Ark of the Covenant of your God YHWH, and it has been against you for a witness there;
Joshua 24:25And Joshua makes a covenant with the people on that day, and lays a statute and an ordinance on it, in Shechem.
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 →