Genesis 31:43-55 (Hebrew Names Version)

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43 Lavan answered Ya`akov, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? 44 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you." 45 Ya`akov took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 Ya`akov said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. 47 Lavan called it Yegar-Sahaduta, but Ya`akov called it Gal`ed. 48 Lavan said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Gal`ed 49 and Mitzpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50 If you will afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you." 51 Lavan said to Ya`akov, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. 53 The God of Avraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Ya`akov swore by the fear of his father, Yitzchak. 54 Ya`akov offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. 55 Early in the morning, Lavan rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Lavan departed and returned to his place.

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