37. Now that you have rummaged through all my things, what have you found from your household belongings? Produce it here before your kinsmen and mine, and let them decide between the two of us.
38. “In the twenty years that I was under you, no ewe or she-goat of yours ever miscarried, and I have never eaten rams of your flock.
39. I never brought you an animal torn by wild beasts; I made good the loss myself. You held me responsible for anything stolen by day or night.
40. Often the scorching heat devoured me by day, and the frost by night, while sleep fled from my eyes!
41. Of the twenty years that I have now spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, while you changed my wages ten times.
42. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, you would now have sent me away empty-handed. But God saw my plight and the fruits of my toil, and last night he reproached you.”
43. Laban replied to Jacob: “The daughters are mine, their children are mine, and the flocks are mine; everything you see belongs to me. What can I do now for my own daughters and for the children they have borne?
44. Come, now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and it will be a treaty between you and me.”
45. Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a sacred pillar.
46. Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they got stones and made a mound; and they ate there at the mound.
47. Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48. Laban said, “This mound will be a witness from now on between you and me.” That is why it was named Galeed—
49. and also Mizpah, for he said: “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.
50. If you mistreat my daughters, or take other wives besides my daughters, know that even though no one else is there, God will be a witness between you and me.”