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46 He said to his relatives, ‘Go and get some stones.’ So they brought some stones and they put them together on the ground. Then they all ate a meal together, near the heap of stones.[a]

47 Laban called that place Jegar Sahadutha. Jacob called it Galeed.[b]

48 Laban said, ‘These stones show that we have made an agreement today.’ That is why the place was called Galeed.

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Footnotes

  1. 31:46 When people made an agreement, they often ate a meal together.
  2. 31:47 Jegar Sahadutha are Aramaic words. Galeed is a Hebrew word. Both mean that the stones showed that people made an agreement there.