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Genesis 31:48
Genesis 31:48 is verse 48 of Genesis chapter 31, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
King James Version
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
World English Bible
Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
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Genesis 31:46–50 · Berean Standard Bible
46 and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
48 Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
49 It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
50 If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Joshua 24:27And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”
Genesis 31:23So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
Deuteronomy 3:16and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
Joshua 13:8The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had assigned to them:
Joshua 13:9The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,