Genesis 31:48

And Lavan said, This gal (heap, mound) is an ed (witness) between me and thee this day. Therefore was shmo called Gale'ed;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Lavan called it Yegar Sahaduta; but Ya'akov called it Gale'ed (“Heap of Witness”).

49And Mitzpah (Watch); for he said, Hashem watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:23And he took his achim with him, and pursued after him derech shivat yamim; and they overtook him at Har Gil'ad.

Deuteronomy 3:16And unto the Reuveni and unto the Gadi I gave from Gil'ad even unto the Wadi Arnon with the middle of the valley as the border even unto the Wadi Yabbok, which is the border of the Bnei Ammon;

Joshua 22:27But that it may be an ed (witness) between us, and you, and doroteinu (our generations) after us, that we might do the avodas Hashem before Him with oloteinu, and with zevakheinu, and with shelameinu; that your banim may not say to our banim in time to come, Ye have no chelek in Hashem.

Joshua 22:34And the Bnei Reuven and the Bnei Gad called the mizbe'ach Ed (Witness), for it is between us that Hashem is HaElohim.

Judges 10:3And after him arose Yair, a Gil'adi, and judged Yisroel twenty and two shanah.

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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