Genesis 31:48

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:

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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 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.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

Deuteronomy 3:16And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon:

Joshua 22:27But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and 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 part in the LORD.

Joshua 22:34And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed : for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.

Judges 10:3And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and 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 →

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