Genesis 31:43-55
Jacob’s Covenant with Laban

43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou seest [is] mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

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44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

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

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46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

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47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

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48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

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49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

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50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.

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51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

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52 This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

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53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

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54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

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55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

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