⁴⁵ So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.^{(A) 46} He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap,^(B) and they ate there by the heap. ⁴⁷ Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.^[a](C)

⁴⁸ Laban said, “This heap^(D) is a witness between you and me today.”^(E) That is why it was called Galeed. ⁴⁹ It was also called Mizpah,^[b](F) because he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. ⁵⁰ If you mistreat^(G) my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness^(H) between you and me.”^(I)

⁵¹ Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap,^(J) and here is this pillar^(K) I have set up between you and me. ⁵² This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness,^(L) that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap^(M) and pillar to my side to harm me.^{(N) 53} May the God of Abraham^(O) and the God of Nahor,^(P) the God of their father, judge between us.”^(Q)

So Jacob took an oath^(R) in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.^(S)

4 When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan,^(A) the Lord said to Joshua, ² “Choose twelve men^(B) from among the people, one from each tribe, ³ and tell them to take up twelve stones^(C) from the middle of the Jordan,^(D) from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.^(E)”

⁴ So Joshua called together the twelve men^(F) he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, ⁵ and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan.^(G) Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, ⁶ to serve as a sign^(H) among you. In the future, when your children^(I) ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’^{(J) 7} tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off^(K) before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial^(L) to the people of Israel forever.”

³¹ Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”^{(A) 32} With the stones he built an altar in the name^(B) of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs^[a] of seed.