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.”
51. Laban said further to Jacob: “Here is this mound, and here is the sacred pillar that I have set up between you and me.
52. This mound will be a witness, and this sacred pillar will be a witness, that, with hostile intent, I may not pass beyond this mound into your territory, nor may you pass beyond it into mine.
53. May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us!” Jacob took the oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.