42. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”
43. Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters and the grandsons are my grandsons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see, it is mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne?
44. So now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you.”
45. And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a stone pillar.
46. And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones.
47. And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48. Then Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore its name is called Galeed,
49. and Mizpah, because he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you when we are out of sight of each other.