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Genesis 31:46
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
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Genesis 31:46 in other translations
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
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In context
43 Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
44 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
49 and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
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