Genesis 31:46

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • 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.
  • Gen 31:32 : 32 With whoever you find your gods, he shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
  • Gen 31:37 : 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.
  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
  • Josh 4:5-9 : 5 and Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; 6 that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones? 7 then you shall tell them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever. 8 The children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.
  • Josh 4:20-24 : 20 Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal. 21 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over; 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.
  • Josh 7:26 : 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
  • 2 Sam 18:17 : 17 They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled everyone to his tent.
  • Eccl 3:5 : 5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones together; 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%

    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.

  • Gen 31:51-54
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    80%

    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.

    54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

  • Gen 31:47-48
    2 verses
    77%

    47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,{"Jegar Sahadutha" means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.} but Jacob called it Galeed.{"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.}

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

  • Gen 28:11
    73%

    11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

  • Gen 35:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Gen 29:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.

    3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

    4 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

  • Gen 28:18
    71%

    18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

  • Gen 31:25
    71%

    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 26:30
    71%

    30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drink.

  • Gen 29:22
    70%

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

  • Gen 27:17
    70%

    17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

  • Gen 31:23
    70%

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

  • Gen 35:1
    70%

    1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

  • Gen 35:20
    68%

    20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

  • Gen 29:10
    68%

    10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

  • Gen 35:27
    68%

    27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 18:8
    68%

    8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

  • 1 Kgs 18:31
    68%

    31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, Israel shall be your name.

  • Gen 31:4
    68%

    4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 35:4
    68%

    4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

  • Gen 35:7
    67%

    7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

  • Gen 31:1
    67%

    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."