Genesis 31:47

And Laba called it Iegar Sahadutha but Iacob called it Gylead.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

In Context

46ad sayde vnto his brethern gather stoones And they toke stoones ad made an heape and they ate there vpo the heape.

48Than sayde Laban: this heape be witnesse betwene the and me this daye (therfore is it called Gilead)

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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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