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And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up for a standing pillar;
42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight.
43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou seest [is] mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
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