⁴⁴So now, come, let us make^p a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you.” ⁴⁵And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a stone pillar. ⁴⁶And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones. ⁴⁷And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,^q but Jacob called it Galeed.^r ⁴⁸Then Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore its name is called Galeed,^s ⁴⁹and Mizpah,^t because he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you when we are out of sight of each other.^u ⁵⁰If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, when there is no man with us, see—God is a witness between me and you.” ⁵¹And Laban said to Jacob, “See, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you. ⁵²This pile of stones is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile of stones to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile of stones and this pillar to me intending harm. ⁵³May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father^v judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal.^w And they ate the meal^x and spent the night on the hill.

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Footnotes

pLiterally “cut”
qAramaic for “the heap of witness”
rHebrew for “the heap of witness”
sHebrew for “the heap of witness”
tHebrew for “watchpost”
uLiterally “each from his neighbor is concealed”
vThat is, Terah
wOr “food, bread”
xOr “food, bread”