Genesis 31:43-55
The Covenant at Mizpah
43Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and athe flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these daughters of mine or to their children whom they have borne? 44“So now come, let us acut a covenant, 1you and I, and blet it be a witness between 2you and me.” 45Then Jacob took aa stone and raised it up as a pillar. 46And Jacob said to his 1relatives, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap. 47And Laban acalled it 1Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it 2Galeed. 48Then Laban said, “aThis heap is a witness between 1you and me this day.” Therefore it was named Galeed, 49and 1,aMizpah, for he said, “May Yahweh watch between 2you and me when we are 3absent one from the other. 50“If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, see, aGod is witness between 1you and me.” 51And Laban said to Jacob, “Behold this heap and behold the pillar which I have set between 1you and me. 52“This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this pillar to me for harm. 53“aThe God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, bjudge between us.” So Jacob swore by cthe dread of his father Isaac. 54Then Jacob aoffered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his 1relatives to eat a 2meal; and they ate 3the meal and spent the night on the mountain. 551And Laban arose early in the morning and akissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.