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47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha [witness heap, in Aramaic], but Jacob called it Galeed [[a]witness heap, in Hebrew.]

48 Laban said, This heap is a witness today between you and me. Therefore it was named Galeed.

49 And [the pillar or monument was called] Mizpah [watchpost], for he [Laban] said, May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent and hidden one from another.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:47 The Latin Vulgate adds, “Each according to the idiom of his own tongue”—i.e., Laban in Aramaic and Jacob in Hebrew.

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