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Genesis - ch 31 v 41 - 55
- And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.
- Unless the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
- Laban answered him: The daughters are mine and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?
- Come therefore, let us enter into a league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
- And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title:
- And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.
- And Laban called it The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.
- And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.
- The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other.
- If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.
- And he said again to Jacob: Behold, this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,
- Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it, thinking harm to me.
- The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
- And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:
- But laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.
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