40. I sweated every day, and I couldn't sleep at night because of the cold.
41. I had to work fourteen of these twenty long years to earn your two daughters and another six years to buy your sheep and goats. During that time you kept changing my wages.
42. If the fearsome God worshipped by Abraham and my father Isaac had not been on my side, you would have sent me away without a thing. But God saw my hard work, and he knew the trouble I was in, so he helped me. Then last night he told you how wrong you were.
43. Laban said to Jacob, “Leah and Rachel are my daughters, and their children belong to me. All these sheep you are taking are really mine too. In fact, everything you have belongs to me. But there is nothing I can do to keep my daughters and their children.
44. So I am ready to make an agreement with you, and we will pile up some large rocks here to remind us of the agreement.”
45. After Jacob had set up a large rock,
46. he told his men to get some more rocks and pile them up next to it. Then Jacob and Laban ate a meal together beside the rocks.
47. Laban named the pile of rocks Jegar Sahadutha. But Jacob named it Galeed.
48. Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks will remind us of our agreement.” That's why the place was named Galeed.
49. Laban also said, “This pile of rocks means that the Lord will watch us both while we are apart from each other.” So the place was also named Mizpah.
50. Then Laban said:If you ill-treat my daughters or marry other women, I may not know about it, but remember, God is watching us!
51-52. Both this pile of rocks and this large rock have been set up between us as a reminder. I must never go beyond them to attack you, and you must never go beyond them to attack me.
53. My father Nahor, your grandfather Abraham, and their ancestors all worshipped the same God, and he will make sure that we each keep the agreement.Then Jacob made a promise in the name of the fearsome God his father Isaac had worshipped.
54. Jacob killed an animal and offered it as a sacrifice there on the mountain, and he invited his men to eat with him. After the meal they spent the night on the mountain.
55. Early the next morning, Laban kissed his daughters and his grandchildren goodbye, then he left to go back home.