Genesis 31:46
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a pile. Then they ate there by the pile.
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45So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
47Laban called it Jegar Saha Dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Cross References
Genesis 31:32Whoever has stolen your gods will not continue to live. In the presence of our relatives, identify whatever with me is yours and take it.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:54Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his relatives to eat a meal. They ate and spent the entire night on the mountain.
Joshua 4:20The twelve stones that they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
2 Samuel 18:17They took Absalom and threw him into a large pit in the forest; they buried his body under a very large pile of stones, while all Israel fled, every man to his own home.
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 →