Genesis 31:43-55

Lexham English Bible

⁴³ Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters and the grandsons^[a] are my grandsons,^[b] and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see, it is mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne? ⁴⁴ So now, come, let us make^[c] a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you.” ⁴⁵ And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a stone pillar. ⁴⁶ And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones. ⁴⁷ And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,^[d] but Jacob called it Galeed.^{[e] 48} Then Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore its name is called Galeed,^{[f] 49} and Mizpah,^[g] because he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you when we are out of sight of each other.^{[h] 50} If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, when there is no man with us, see—God is a witness between me and you.” ⁵¹ And Laban said to Jacob, “See, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you. ⁵² This pile of stones is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile of stones to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile of stones and this pillar to me intending harm. ⁵³ May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father^[i] judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal.^[j] And they ate the meal^[k] and spent the night on the hill. ^55 [l] And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his grandsons^[m] and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his homeland.