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.