Genesis 31:46

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He said to his relatives, 'Gather some stones.' So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

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  • Gen 31:23 : 23 Taking his relatives with him, Laban pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
  • Gen 31:32 : 32 But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether anything of yours is here with me; and if so, take it.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
  • Gen 31:37 : 37 You have searched through all my belongings. What have you found that belongs to your household? Place it here in front of my relatives and yours, and let them judge between us.
  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Then Jacob sacrificed a offering on the mountain and invited his relatives to a meal. They ate and spent the night on the mountain.
  • Josh 4:5-9 : 5 and he said to them, “Cross ahead of the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone on his shoulder, one for each of the tribes of the Israelites. 6 This will serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ 7 you shall tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD when it crossed the Jordan. The waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the Israelites forever.’” 8 So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, as the LORD had told Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites. They carried them over with them to their camp and set them down there. 9 Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, under the place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood, and they are there to this day.
  • Josh 4:20-24 : 20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan. 21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 You are to let your children know: 'Israel crossed the Jordan here on dry ground.' 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea when He dried it up before us until we had crossed over. 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.
  • Josh 7:26 : 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones, which remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from His fierce anger. Therefore, that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.
  • 2 Sam 18:17 : 17 They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a great heap of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
  • Eccl 3:5 : 5 A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.

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  • Gen 31:44-45
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    83%

    44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.'

    45So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

  • Gen 31:51-54
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    51Laban also said to Jacob, 'Here is the heap, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

    52This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to harm you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to harm me.

    53May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.' So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.

    54Then Jacob sacrificed a offering on the mountain and invited his relatives to a meal. They ate and spent the night on the mountain.

  • Gen 31:47-48
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    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

    48Laban said, 'This heap is a witness between you and me today.' That is why it was called Galeed.

  • Gen 28:11
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    11He came to a certain place, stayed there for the night because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

  • Gen 35:14-15
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    14Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had spoken with him. He poured out a drink offering on it and also poured oil on it.

    15Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

  • Gen 29:2-4
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    2He saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying beside it because that well was where the flocks were watered. A large stone was over the mouth of the well.

    3All the flocks would gather there, and the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s opening to water the sheep, and then they would put the stone back over the well’s mouth in its place.

    4Jacob said to them, 'My brothers, where are you from?' They replied, 'We are from Haran.'

  • Gen 28:18
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    18Early in the morning, Jacob took the stone he had used as a pillow, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

  • Gen 31:25
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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 26:30
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    30Then Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

  • Gen 29:22
    70%

    22So Laban gathered all the men of the place and held a feast.

  • Gen 27:17
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    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had prepared to her son Jacob.

  • Gen 31:23
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    23Taking his relatives with him, Laban pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 35:1
    70%

    1God said to Jacob, "Get up, go to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

  • Gen 35:20
    68%

    20Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; that pillar marks Rachel's grave to this day.

  • Gen 29:10
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    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

  • Gen 35:27
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    27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 18:8
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    8He then brought curds, milk, and the calf he had prepared, and set them before the men. While they ate, he stood near them under the tree.

  • 1 Kgs 18:31
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    31Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, 'Your name shall be Israel.'

  • Gen 31:4
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    4So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flock was.

  • Gen 35:4
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    4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the earrings they were wearing, and Jacob buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.

  • Gen 35:7
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    7There he built an altar and named the place El Bethel (God of Bethel), because it was there that God revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

  • Gen 31:1
    67%

    1Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father and has acquired all this wealth from what was our father’s.'