³⁰ And he said, “You will take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that ^(A)they may be my witness that I have dug this well.”

⁵² This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be ^(A)a witness to us, for ^(B)it has heard all the words of the Lord which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.”

²⁷ but that it may be ^(A)a ^[a]witness between you and us and our generations after us, that we may ^(B)perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your descendants may not say to our descendants in time to come, “You have no part in the Lord.” ’ ²⁸ Therefore we said that it will be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, ‘Here is the replica of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.’

⁴⁴ Now therefore, come, ^(A)let us make a ^[a]covenant, ^(B)you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”

⁴⁵ So Jacob ^(C)took a stone and set it up as a pillar. ⁴⁶ Then Jacob said to his brethren, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap. ⁴⁷ Laban called it ^[b]Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it ^[c]Galeed. ⁴⁸ And Laban said, ^(D)“This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed,