Genesis 31:46
And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and thee today.
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In Context
45And Jacob having taken a stone, set it up for a pillar.
47And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.
Cross References
Genesis 31:32And Jacob said, With whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, he shall not live in the presence of our brethren; take notice of what I have of thy property, and take it; and he observed nothing with him, but Jacob knew not that his wife Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:54And he offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren, and they ate and drank, and slept in the mountain.
Joshua 4:20And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Gilgal,
2 Samuel 18:17And he took Absalom, and cast him into a great cavern in the wood, into a deep pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every man to his tent.
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 →