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What does Genesis 31:49 mean?
"and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another."
— Genesis 31:49 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
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.”
Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
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