⁴⁵So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial. ⁴⁶He told his men to gather some rocks and pile them up. Then they ate a meal beside the pile of rocks. ⁴⁷Laban named it Jegar Sahadutha,^e while Jacob named it Galeed.^f ⁴⁸Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks will be a reminder for both of us.” That is why that place was named Galeed. ⁴⁹Laban also said, “May the Lord keep an eye on us while we are separated from each other.” So the place was also named Mizpah.^g ⁵⁰Laban went on, “If you ill-treat my daughters or if you marry other women, even though I don’t know about it, remember that God is watching us. ⁵¹Here are the rocks that I have piled up between us, and here is the memorial stone. ⁵²Both this pile and this memorial stone are reminders. I will never go beyond this pile to attack you, and you must never go beyond it or beyond this memorial stone to attack me. ⁵³The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor^h will judge between us.” Then, in the name of the God whom his father Isaac worshipped, Jacob solemnly vowed to keep this promise. ⁵⁴He killed an animal, which he offered as a sacrifice on the mountain, and he invited his men to the meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

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Footnotes

ejegar sahadutha: This name in Aramaic means “a pile to remind us”.
fgaleed: This name in Hebrew means “a pile to remind us”.
gmizpah: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “place from which to watch”.
habraham … nahor: Abraham was Jacob’s grandfather and Nahor was Laban’s grandfather.