Genesis 31:48
“This heap”, Laban said, “is witness between me and you today.” This is why it was called Galeed,
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47Laban called it Jegar-sahaduthap, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Cross References
Genesis 31:23he took his tribesmen with him, and pursued him for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
Joshua 22:27but to stand as a witness between us and you, and between our descendants and yours, attesting that we are to worship before the Lord with our burnt offerings and recompense offerings, so that your descendants may never claim in time to come that we have no share in the Lord.
Joshua 22:34The Reubenites and the Gadites named the altar, saying “it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”
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 →