Genesis 31:45

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

Genesis 31:45 in Other Translations

45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

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

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

45 Jacob took a stone and set it upright as a pillar.

45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

45 Jacob took a stone and set it up as a marker.

45 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.

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

Genesis 31:45 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:45

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
] To show his readiness to agree to the motion, he immediately took a large stone that lay upon the mount, and set it up on one end, to be a standing monument or memorial of the agreement now about to be made between them.

Genesis 31:45 In-Context

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.

47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 28:18