KJV King James Version
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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Genesis 31:48
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
WEB World English Bible
Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you this day.” Therefore it was named Galeed
ASV American Standard Version
And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Laban saith, ‘This heap is witness between me and thee to-day;’ therefore hath he called its name Galeed;
Surrounding context — Genesis 31
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;
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
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וַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayלָבָ֔ןH3837 · la.vanLabanהַגַּ֨לH1530 · galheapהַזֶּ֥הH2088 · zehthisעֵ֛דH5707 · edwitnessבֵּינִ֥יH996 · ba.yinbetweenוּבֵינְךָ֖H996 · ba.yinbetweenהַיּ֑וֹםH3117 · yomdayעַל־H5921 · aluponכֵּ֥ןH3651 · kenrightקָרָֽא־H7121 · qa.rato call: call toשְׁמ֖וֹH8034 · shemnameגַּלְעֵֽד׃H1567 · gal.edGaleed
Cross-references
Joshua 24:27And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.Deuteronomy 3:16And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon;Joshua 13:8-9With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;Genesis 31:23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer, which [is] by the brink of the river of Arnon, and [from] the city that [is] by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
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