40. By day the drought consumed me, and by night, the frost; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
41. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
42. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, were not with me, surely thou would send me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the work of my hands and rebuked thee last night.
43. And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these sons are my sons, and these sheep are my sheep, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their sons unto whom they have given birth?
44. Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
45. Then Jacob took a stone and set it up for a pillar.
46. And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones and made a heap; and they ate there upon the heap.
47. And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48. And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
49. and Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.
50. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee.
51. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have raised up between me and thee;
52. let this heap be witness and this pillar be witness that I will not pass over this heap against thee and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar against me, for harm.
53. The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their fathers, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.