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Genesis 31:44
Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
Genesis 31:44 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 31:44 in other translations
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
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In context
41 And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.
42 Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
43 Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?
44 Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.
46 And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.
47 And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.
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