Laban’s Covenant with Jacob

⁴³ And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne? 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, ⁴⁹ also ^(E)Mizpah,^[d] because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from another. ⁵⁰ If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us—see, God is witness between you and me!”

⁵¹ Then Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this heap and here is this pillar, which I have placed between you and me. 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. ⁵³ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father ^(F)judge between us.” And Jacob ^(G)swore by ^(H)the ^[e]Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain. ⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban arose, and ^(I)kissed his sons and daughters and ^(J)blessed them. Then Laban departed and ^(K)returned to his place.