Genesis 31:43-54

New Catholic Bible

⁴³ Laban then answered Jacob and said, “These daughters are my daughters and these grandsons are my grandsons. These cattle are my cattle, and all you see is mine. What could I do to you today and to these daughters and to the children whom they have brought into the world? ⁴⁴ Come, let us make a covenant between me and you, and let it be a witness between me and you.”

⁴⁵ Jacob took a stone and erected it as a pillar. ⁴⁶ Then he said to his relatives, “Collect some stones,” and they took stones and made a mound out of them. They then ate sitting upon the mound. ⁴⁷ Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, while Jacob called it Galeed.

⁴⁸ Laban said, “Let this mound be today a witness between me and you.” Because of this he called it Galeed ⁴⁹ and also Mizpah, because he said, “May the Lord keep watch between me and you when we will no longer see each other.^{[a] 50} If you mistreat my daughters and take other wives besides my daughters, be warned that God will be a judge between you and me.”

⁵¹ Laban continued and said to Jacob, “Behold this mound and this pillar that I have erected between me and you. ⁵² Let this mound be a witness, and this pillar be a witness, that I will not cross over past this mound to do you harm and that you will not cross over past this mound and this pillar to do me harm. ⁵³ The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor be a judge between us.”

Jacob swore an oath by the name of the Terror of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ Then he offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat with him. They ate and spent the night on the mountain.