Genesis 31:51

51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me.

Genesis 31:51 in Other Translations

51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

51 Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me.

51 “See this pile of stones,” Laban continued, “and see this monument I have set between us.

51 Laban continued to Jacob, "This monument of stones and this stone pillar that I have set up is a witness,

51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee.

51 Laban said to Jacob, "Here is the pile of stones, and here is the marker that I have set up between you and me.

51 Laban also said to Jacob, "Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me.

51 Laban also said to Jacob, "Here is this pile of stones. And here is this pillar. I've set them up between you and me.

Genesis 31:51 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:51

And Laban said to Jacob
Continued speaking to him, as follows: behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar which I have cast betwixt
me and thee;
the heap of stones seems to be gathered and laid together by the brethren, and the pillar to be erected by Jacob; and yet Laban says of them both, that he cast them, or erected them, they being done by his order, or with his consent, as well as Jacob's; unless the pillar can be thought to design another beside that which Jacob set up, and was like that, a single stone at some little distance from the heap: but the Samaritan and Arabic versions read, "which thou hast seen or set" agreeably to ( Genesis 31:45 ) .

Genesis 31:51 In-Context

49 It was also called Mizpah, because he said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.

50 If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”

51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me.

52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me.

53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 46
• 2. S Genesis 28:18