Genesis 31:48

World English Bible (2000)

Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

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  • Josh 24:27 : 27 Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."
  • Gen 31:23 : 23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
  • Deut 2:36 : 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
  • Deut 3:16 : 16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
  • Josh 13:8-9 : 8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them: 9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;

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    43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

    44 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

    45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

    46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

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

  • Gen 31:49-53
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    49 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

    50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

    51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

    52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

    53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

  • 25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

  • Gen 30:27-28
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    27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

    28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

  • 34 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar "A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God."

  • 34 Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

  • Gen 31:12-13
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    12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

    13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

  • Gen 31:1-2
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    1 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."

    2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

  • 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

  • 36 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

  • Gen 31:21-23
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    21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

    22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

    23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

    37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

  • 19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

  • 22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

  • 14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

  • 20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

  • 11 Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.

  • 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

  • 30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

  • 10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do."