40. "And what was my life like? The heat burned me in the daytime. And it was so cold at night that I froze. I couldn't sleep.
41. That's what it was like for the 20 years I was living with you. "I worked for 14 years to get your two daughters. I worked for six years to get my share of your flocks. You changed my pay ten times.
42. "But the God of my father was with me. He is the God of Abraham and the God Isaac worshiped. If he hadn't been with me, you would certainly have sent me away without anything to show for all of my work. But God has seen my hard times. He has seen all of the work my hands have done. So last night he warned you."
43. Laban answered Jacob, "The women are my daughters. The children are my children. The flocks are my flocks. Everything you see is mine. But what can I do today about these daughters of mine? What can I do about the children they've had?
44. "Come now. Let's make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between us."
45. So Jacob took a stone. He set it up as a pillar.
46. He said to his relatives, "Get some stones." So they took stones and put them in a pile. And they ate there by it.
47. Laban named the pile of stones Jegar Sahadutha. Jacob named it Galeed.
48. Laban said, "This pile of stones is a witness between you and me today." That's why it was named Galeed.
49. It was also called Mizpah. That's because Laban said, "May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.
50. Don't treat my daughters badly. Don't get married to any women besides my daughters. There isn't anyone here to see what we're doing. But remember that God is a witness between you and me."
51. Laban also said to Jacob, "Here is this pile of stones. And here is this pillar. I've set them up between you and me.
52. This pile is a witness. And this pillar is a witness. They give witness that I won't go past this pile to harm you. And they give witness that you won't go past this pile and pillar to harm me.
53. "The God of Abraham and Nahor is also the God of their father. May their God decide which of us is right." So Jacob took an oath in the name of the God his father Isaac worshiped.
54. He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country. And he invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.