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Genesis 31:47-49
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Genesis 31:47-49
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha [witness heap, in Aramaic], but Jacob called it Galeed [[a]witness heap, in Hebrew.]
48 Laban said, This heap is a witness today between you and me. Therefore it was named Galeed.
49 And [the pillar or monument was called] Mizpah [watchpost], for he [Laban] said, May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent and hidden one from another.
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- Genesis 31:47 The Latin Vulgate adds, “Each according to the idiom of his own tongue”—i.e., Laban in Aramaic and Jacob in Hebrew.
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