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Genesis 31:44–54

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44Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.

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

46And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.

47And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.

48And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

49The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

50If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

51And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,

52Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.

53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac:

54And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

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