Genesis 31:45–53

⁴⁵So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.^{q 46}He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap,^r and they ate there by the heap. ⁴⁷Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.^bs

⁴⁸Laban said, “This heap^t is a witness between you and me today.”^u That is why it was called Galeed. ⁴⁹It was also called Mizpah,^cv because he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. ⁵⁰If you mistreat^w my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness^x between you and me.”^y

⁵¹Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap,^z and here is this pillar^a I have set up between you and me. ⁵²This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness,^b that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap^c and pillar to my side to harm me.^{d 53}May the God of Abraham^e and the God of Nahor,^f the God of their father, judge between us.”^g

So Jacob took an oath^h in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.ⁱ