Genesis 31:41-55

English Standard Version

⁴¹These twenty years I have been in your house. ^(A)I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and ^(B)you have changed my wages ten times. ⁴²^(C)If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the ^(D)Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. ^(E)God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and ^(F)rebuked you last night.”

⁴³Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne? ⁴⁴Come now, ^(G)let us make a covenant, you and I. ^(H)And let it be a witness between you and me.” ⁴⁵So Jacob ^(I)took a stone and set it up as a pillar. ⁴⁶And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap. ⁴⁷Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha,^[a] but Jacob called it Galeed.^[b] ⁴⁸Laban said, ^(J)“This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed, ⁴⁹^(K)and Mizpah,^[c] for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight. ⁵⁰If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, ^(L)God is witness between you and me.”

⁵¹Then Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me. ⁵²^(M)This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm. ⁵³The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the ^(N)Fear of his father Isaac, ⁵⁴and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called ^(O)his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.