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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    43Laban 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?

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

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    49and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

    50If 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."

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    25Laban 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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    27Laban 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."

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

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

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

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