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—