Genesis 31:48

48 Laban said, "¹This heap is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore * it was named * Galeed,

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Genesis 31:48 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:48

And Laban said, this heap [is] a witness between me and thee
this day.
] A witness of the covenant now about to be made between them that day, and a witness against them should they break it: therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
by Jacob, as before observed; (See Gill on Genesis 31:47).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 31:48 In-Context

46 Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

47 Now Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

48 Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore it was named Galeed,

49 and Mizpah, for he said, "May the LORD watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.

50 "If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, see, God is witness between you and me."

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1. Joshua 24:27

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[a]. Lit "me and you"

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