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Genesis 31:47
And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.
Genesis 31:47 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 31:47 in other translations
And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
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In context
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.
48 And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.
49 The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.
50 If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.
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