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What does Genesis 31:46 mean?
"Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap."
— Genesis 31:46 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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: and what can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
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