Genesis 31:48

And Laban says, “This heap [is] witness between me and you today”; therefore has he called its name Galeed;

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In The King James Version

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

In Context

47and Laban calls it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob has called it Galeed.

49Mizpah also, for he said, “YHWH watches between me and you, for we are hidden from one another;

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Cross References

Genesis 31:23and he takes his brothers with him, and pursues after him a journey of seven days, and overtakes him in the Mount of Gilead.

Deuteronomy 3:16And to the Reubenite and to the Gadite I have given from Gilead even to the Brook of Arnon, the middle of the valley and the border, even to the Brook of Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon,

Joshua 22:27but it [is] a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, to do the service of YHWH before Him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, and your sons do not say hereafter to our sons, You have no portion in YHWH.

Joshua 22:34And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad proclaim concerning the altar, that, “[It is] a witness between us that YHWH [is] God.”

Judges 10:3And there rises Jair the Gileadite after him, and he judges 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 →

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