⁴³ Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks.^(A) All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne? ⁴⁴ Come now, let’s make a covenant,^(B) you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”^(C)

⁴⁵ So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.^{(D) 46} He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap,^(E) and they ate there by the heap. ⁴⁷ Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.^[a](F)

⁴⁸ Laban said, “This heap^(G) is a witness between you and me today.”^(H) That is why it was called Galeed. ⁴⁹ It was also called Mizpah,^[b](I) because he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. ⁵⁰ If you mistreat^(J) my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness^(K) between you and me.”^(L)

⁵¹ Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap,^(M) and here is this pillar^(N) I have set up between you and me. ⁵² This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness,^(O) that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap^(P) and pillar to my side to harm me.^{(Q) 53} May the God of Abraham^(R) and the God of Nahor,^(S) the God of their father, judge between us.”^(T)

So Jacob took an oath^(U) in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.^{(V) 54} He offered a sacrifice^(W) there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal.^(X) After they had eaten, they spent the night there.

⁵⁵ Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters^(Y) and blessed^(Z) them. Then he left and returned home.^[c](AA)