Genesis 31:43-55
1599 Geneva Bible
43 Then Laban answered, and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these sons are my sons, and these sheep are my sheep, and all that thou seest, is mine, and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or to their sons which they have borne?
44 Now therefore [a]come let us make a covenant, I and thou, which may be a witness between me and thee.
45 Then took Jacob a stone, and set it up as a pillar:
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones: who brought stones, and made a heap, and they did eat there upon the heap.
47 And Laban called it [b]Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it [c]Galeed.
48 For Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day: therefore he called the name of it Galeed.
49 Also he called it [d]Mizpah, because he said, The Lord [e]look between me and he, when we shall be [f]departed one from another.
50 If thou shalt vex my daughters, or shalt take [g]wives beside my daughters: there is no man with us, behold, God is witness between me and thee.
51 Moreover Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and thee.
52 This heap shall be witness, and the pillar shall be witness, that I will not come over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me for evil.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of [h]Nahor, and the God of their father be judge between us: but Jacob sware by the [i]fear of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob did offer a sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat [j]bread, and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
55 And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons, and his daughters, and [k]blessed them, and Laban departing, went unto his place again.
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- Genesis 31:44 His conscience reproved him of his misbehavior toward Jacob, and therefore moved him to seek peace.
- Genesis 31:47 Or, the heap of witness.
- Genesis 31:47 The one named the place in the Syrian tongue, and the other in the Hebrew tongue.
- Genesis 31:49 Or, watch tower.
- Genesis 31:49 To punish the trespasser.
- Genesis 31:49 Or, hid.
- Genesis 31:50 Nature compelleth him to condemn that vice, whereunto through covetousness he forced Jacob.
- Genesis 31:53 Behold, how the idolaters mingle the true God with their feigned gods.
- Genesis 31:53 Meaning, by the true God whom Isaac worshipped.
- Genesis 31:54 Or, meat.
- Genesis 31:55 We see that there is ever some seed of the knowledge of God in the hearts of the wicked.
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