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What does Genesis 31:47 mean?

"Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed."

— Genesis 31:47 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

44

Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and 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, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

50

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

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