Genesis 31:43-55 (Complete Jewish Bible)
43
Lavan answered Ya'akov, "The daughters are mine, the children are mine, the flocks are mine, and everything you see is mine! But what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
44
So now, come, let's make a covenant, I and you; and let it stand as a testimony between me and you."
45
Ya'akov took a stone and set it upright as a standing-stone.
46
Then Ya'akov said to his kinsmen, "Gather some stones"; and they took stones, made a pile of them and ate there by the pile of stones.
47
Lavan called it Y'gar-Sahaduta ["pile of witness" in Aramaic], while Ya'akov called it Gal-'Ed ["pile of witness" in Hebrew].
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Lavan said, "This pile witnesses between me and you today."This is why it is called Gal-'Ed
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and also HaMitzpah [the watchtower], because he said, "May ADONAI watch between me and you when we are apart from each other.
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If you cause pain to my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, then, even if no one is there with us, still God is witness between me and you."
51
Lavan also said to Ya'akov, "Here is this pile, and here is this standing-stone, which I have set up between me and you.
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May this pile be a witness, and may the standing-stone be a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile to you, and you will not pass beyond this pile and this standing-stone to me, to cause harm.
53
May the God of Avraham and also the god of Nachor, the god of their father, judge between us." But Ya'akov swore by the One his father Yitz'chak feared.
54
Ya'akov offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his kinsmen to the meal. They ate the food and spent the whole night on the mountain.
55
Early in the morning Lavan got up, kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them. Then Lavan left and returned to his own place.
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