37. You looked through everything I own and found nothing that belongs to you. If you found something, show it to me. Put it here where our men can see it. Let our men decide which one of us is right.
38. I have worked 20 years for you. During all that time none of the baby sheep and goats died during birth. And I have not eaten any of the rams from your flocks.
39. Any time a sheep was killed by wild animals, I always paid for the loss myself. I did not take the dead animal to you and say that it was not my fault. But I was robbed day and night.
40. In the daytime the sun took away my strength, and at night sleep was taken from my eyes by the cold.
41. I worked 20 years like a slave for you. For the first 14 years I worked to win your two daughters. The last six years I worked to earn your animals. And during that time you changed my pay ten times.
42. But the God of my ancestors, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, was with me. If God had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing. But he saw the trouble that I had and the work that I did, and last night God proved that I am right.”
43. Laban said to Jacob, “These women are my daughters. These children belong to me, and these animals are mine. Everything you see here belongs to me, but I can do nothing to keep my daughters and their children.
44. So I am ready to make an agreement with you. We will set up a pile of stones to show that we have an agreement.”
45. So Jacob found a large rock and put it there to show that he had made an agreement.
46. He told his men to find some more rocks and to make a pile of rocks. Then they ate beside the pile of rocks.
47. Laban named that place Yegar Sahadutha. But Jacob named that place Galeed.
48. Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks will help us both remember our agreement.” That is why Jacob called the place Galeed.
49. Then Laban said, “Let the Lord watch over us while we are separated from each other.” So that place was also named Mizpah.
50. Then Laban said, “If you hurt my daughters, remember that God will punish you. If you marry other women, remember that God is watching.
51. Here are the rocks that I have put between us, and here is the special rock to show that we made an agreement.
52. This pile of rocks and this one special rock both help us to remember our agreement. I will never go past these rocks to fight against you, and you must never go on my side of these rocks to fight against me.
53. May the God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their ancestors judge us guilty if we break this agreement.” Jacob’s father, Isaac, called God “Fear.” So Jacob used that name to make the promise.
54. Then Jacob killed an animal and offered it as a sacrifice on the mountain. And he invited his men to come and share a meal. After they finished eating, they spent the night on the mountain.