Genesis 31:44

44 Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”

Genesis 31:44 in Other Translations

44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me."

44 So come, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and it will be a witness to our commitment.”

44 So let's settle things between us, make a covenant - God will be the witness between us."

44 Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us."

Genesis 31:44 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:44

Now therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, I and
thou
Let us be good friends, and enter into an alliance for mutual safety, and make an agreement for each other's good. Laban perceiving that Jacob's God was with him, and blessed him, and made him prosperous, and protected him, was fearful, lest, growing powerful, he should some time or other revenge himself on him or his, for his ill usage of him; and therefore was desirous of entering into a covenant of friendship with him: and let it be for a witness between me and thee;
that all past differences are made up, and former quarrels subside, and everything before amiss is forgiven and forgotten, and that for the future peace and good will subsist; of which a covenant made between them would be a testimony.

Genesis 31:44 In-Context

42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.”

43 Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?

44 Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”

45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

46 He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 21:27; Genesis 26:28
• 2. S Genesis 21:30; Joshua 24:27