Genesis 31:48
And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
47And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
49and Mizpah, for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Cross References
Genesis 31:23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
Deuteronomy 3:16And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border thereof; even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 22:27but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no portion in the LORD.
Joshua 22:34And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: For, said they, it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.
Judges 10:3And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and 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 →