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Genesis - ch 31 v 41 - 55
- `This `is' to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times;
- unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'
- And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, `The daughters `are' my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing `is' mine; and to my daughters -- what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?
- and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'
- And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up `for' a standing pillar;
- and Jacob saith to his brethren, `Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;
- and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.
- And Laban saith, `This heap `is' witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;
- Mizpah also, for he said, `Jehovah doth watch between me and thee, for we are hidden one from another;
- if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters -- there is no man with us -- see, God `is' witness between me and thee.'
- And Laban saith to Jacob, `Lo, this heap, and lo, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee;
- this heap `is' witness, and the standing pillar `is' witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me -- for evil;
- the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, doth judge between us -- the God of their father,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac.
- And Jacob sacrificeth a sacrifice in the mount, and calleth to his brethren to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge in the mount;
- and Laban riseth early in the morning, and kisseth his sons and his daughters, and blesseth them; and Laban goeth on, and turneth back to his place.
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