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47 And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,[a] but Jacob called it Galeed.[b] 48 Then Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore its name is called Galeed,[c] 49 and Mizpah,[d] because he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you when we are out of sight of each other.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:47 Aramaic for “the heap of witness”
  2. Genesis 31:47 Hebrew for “the heap of witness”
  3. Genesis 31:48 Hebrew for “the heap of witness”
  4. Genesis 31:49 Hebrew for “watchpost”
  5. Genesis 31:49 Literally “each from his neighbor is concealed”