40. In the daytime the sun took away my strength. At night I was cold and could not sleep.
41. I worked like a slave for you for 20 years. For the first 14 years I worked to get your two daughters. The last 6 years I worked to earn your animals. And during that time you changed my pay ten times.
42. But the God of my father was with me. He is the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac. If God had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing. But he saw the trouble I had and the hard work I did. And last night God corrected you.”
43. Laban said to Jacob, “These girls are my daughters. Their 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. Let us make an agreement. Let us set up a pile of stones to remind us of our agreement.”
45. So Jacob took a large rock and set it up on its end.
46. He told his relatives to gather rocks. So they took the rocks and piled them up. Then they ate beside the pile of rocks.
47. Laban named that place in his language A Pile to Remind Us. And Jacob gave the place the same name in Hebrew.
48. Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks will remind us of the agreement between us.” That is why the place was called A Pile to Remind Us.
49. It was also called Mizpah. This was because Laban said, “Let the Lord watch over us while we are separated from each other.
50. Remember that God is our witness. This is true even if no one else is around us. He will know if you harm my daughters or marry other women.
51. Here is the pile of rocks that I have put between us. And here is the rock I set up on end.