Genesis 31:48

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and thee; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.

49And the vision of which he said—Let God look to it between me and thee, because we are about to depart from each other—

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Cross References

Genesis 31:23And having taken his brethren with him, he pursued after him seven days’ journey, and overtook him on Mount Gilead.

Deuteronomy 3:16And to Reuben and to Gad I gave the land under Gilead as far as the brook of Arnon, the border between the brook and as far as Jabbok; the brook is the border to the children of Ammon.

Joshua 22:27but that this may be a witness between you and us, and between our posterity after us, that we may do service to the Lord before him, with our burnt offerings and our meat offerings and our peace offerings: so your sons shall not say to our sons, hereafter, Ye have no portion in the Lord.

Joshua 22:34And Joshua gave a name to the altar of the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasseh; and said, It is a testimony in the midst of them, that the Lord is their God.

Judges 10:3And after him arose Jair of Gilead, and he judged Israel 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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