Genesis 31:46
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
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45Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Cross References
Genesis 31:32Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:54Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
Joshua 4:20Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.
2 Samuel 18:17They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own 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 →