Genesis 31:49

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

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

In Context

48And Laban says, “This heap [is] witness between me and you today”; therefore has he called its name Galeed;

50if you afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters—there is no man with us—see, God [is] witness between me and you.”

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Cross References

Judges 11:11And Jephthah goes with [the] elderly of Gilead, and the people set him over them for head and for captain, and Jephthah speaks all his words before YHWH in Mizpeh.

1 Samuel 7:5and Samuel says, “Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I pray to YHWH for you.”

Hosea 5:1“Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, || And, O house of the king, give ear, || For the judgment [is] for you, || For you have been a snare on Mizpah, || And a net spread out on Tabor.

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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