Genesis 31:48

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

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  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will serve as a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.
  • 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.
  • Deut 2:36 : 36 From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, and from the city in the valley, even to Gilead, not one city was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave them all into our hands.
  • Deut 3:16 : 16 To the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the land extending from Gilead to the Arnon Valley, with the valley as the border, as far as the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
  • Josh 13:8-9 : 8 The other half-tribe, along with the Reubenites and the Gadites, has already received the inheritance that Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, as the servant of the LORD had assigned to them. 9 Their territory extended from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley, including the city in the middle of the valley, and the entire plateau from Medeba to Dibon.

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  • Gen 31:43-47
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    43Laban answered Jacob, 'The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about the children they have borne?

    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.

    46He said to his relatives, 'Gather some stones.' So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

  • Gen 31:49-53
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    49It was also called Mizpah, because he said, 'May the LORD watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.

    50If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.'

    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.

  • 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 30:27-28
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    27But Laban said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me because of you.'

    28He continued, 'Name your wages, and I will pay them.'

  • Josh 22:34
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    34And the Reubenites and the Gadites named the altar 'A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God.'

  • Gen 30:34
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    34Laban said, 'Very well, let it be as you have said.'

  • Gen 31:12-13
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    12He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'

  • Gen 31:1-2
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    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.'

    2Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was no longer the same as it had been before.

  • Gen 35:15
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    15Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

  • Gen 30:36
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    36Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to take care of the rest of Laban's flocks.

  • Gen 31:21-23
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    21So Jacob fled with all he had. He crossed the river and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

    22On the third day, Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

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

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36Then Jacob became angry and confronted Laban. 'What is my crime?' he asked. 'What sin have I committed that you have pursued me?

    37You 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.

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    19Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.'

  • Gen 29:22
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    22So Laban gathered all the men of the place and held a feast.

  • Gen 29:14
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    14Then Laban said to him, 'Surely you are my own flesh and blood.' Jacob stayed with him for a month.

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    20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

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    11Then Leah said, 'What good fortune!' So she named him Gad.

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    19He called the name of that place Bethel, but previously the name of the city was called Luz.

  • Gen 21:30
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    30He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'

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    10The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, 'The Lord is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.'