Genesis 31:45

45 Than toke Iacob a stone and sett it vp an ende

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 ad sayde vnto Iacob: the doughters are my doughters and the childern ar my childern and the shepe are my shepe ad all that thou seist is myne. And what can I do this daye vnto these my doughters or vnto their childern which they haue borne?

44 Now therfore come on let us make a bonde I and thou together and let it be a wytnesse betwene the and me.

45 Than toke Iacob a stone and sett it vp an ende

46 ad sayde vnto his brethern gather stoones And they toke stoones ad made an heape and they ate there vpo the heape.

47 And Laba called it Iegar Sahadutha but Iacob called it Gylead.