Genesis 31:46

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then he said to his relatives,“Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones.

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  • Gen 31:23 : 23 So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
  • Gen 31:32 : 32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
  • Gen 31:37 : 37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!
  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
  • Josh 4:5-9 : 5 Joshua told them,“Go in front of the ark of the LORD your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes. 6 The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday,‘Why are these stones important to you?’ 7 tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing. These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites.” 8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the LORD had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there. 9 Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.
  • Josh 4:20-24 : 20 Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan. 21 He told the Israelites,“When your children someday ask their fathers,‘What do these stones represent?’ 22 explain to your children,‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’ 23 For the LORD your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the LORD your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it. 24 He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the LORD’s power and so you might always obey the LORD your God.”
  • Josh 7:26 : 26 Then they erected over him a large pile of stones(it remains to this very day) and the LORD’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.
  • 2 Sam 18:17 : 17 They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes.
  • Eccl 3:5 : 5 A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:44-45
    2 verses
    83%

    44So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”

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

  • Gen 31:51-54
    4 verses
    80%

    51“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.

    52“This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.

    53May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.

    54Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

  • Gen 31:47-48
    2 verses
    77%

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

    48Laban said,“This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today.” That is why it was called Galeed.

  • Gen 28:11
    73%

    11He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

  • Gen 35:14-15
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    73%

    14So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

    15Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

  • Gen 29:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

    3When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

    4Jacob asked them,“My brothers, where are you from?” They replied,“We’re from Haran.”

  • Gen 28:18
    71%

    18Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.

  • Gen 31:25
    71%

    25Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

  • Gen 26:30
    71%

    30So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.

  • Gen 29:22
    70%

    22So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

  • Gen 27:17
    70%

    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

  • Gen 31:23
    70%

    23So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 35:1
    70%

    1The Return to Bethel Then God said to Jacob,“Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

  • Gen 35:20
    68%

    20Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.

  • Gen 29:10
    68%

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

  • Gen 35:27
    68%

    27So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba(that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

  • Gen 18:8
    68%

    8Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

  • 1 Kgs 18:31
    68%

    31Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the LORD’s message had come,“Israel will be your name.”

  • Gen 31:4
    68%

    4So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • Gen 35:4
    68%

    4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem

  • Gen 35:7
    67%

    7He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

  • Gen 31:1
    67%

    1Jacob’s Flight from Laban Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining,“Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father’s expense!”