42. Had I not had the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, you would have sent me away empty-handed now. But God saw my misery and the toil of my hands and last night He became the Judge.”
43. In response Laban said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flocks are my flocks. Everything you see is mine. But what can I do for these, my daughters, today, or for their sons to whom they’ve given birth?
44. So now, come, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”
45. So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar,
46. and Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they took the stones and made a pile. Then they ate there on the pile.
47. Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha and Jacob called it Gal-ed.
48. And Laban said, “This pile is a witness between me and you today.” That is why its name is Gal-ed,
49. or Mizpah, for he said, “Let Adonai keep watch between you and me when we are out of one another’s sight.
50. If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, though no one is with us, look! God is the witness between you and me.”
51. Laban said further to Jacob, “Behold, this pile, and this pillar which I’ve set up between you and me:
52. this pile serves as a witness, that I won’t pass by this pillar to go to you, and that you won’t pass by this pile and this pillar to go to me—with evil intent.
53. May the God of Abraham and the gods of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob also made an oath by the fear of his father Isaac.
54. Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and he invited his relatives to eat bread. So they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.