47 And Laban called it, 'Tomb of Witness,' and Jacob, 'Pile of Testimony;' each of them according to the fitness of his own language.
48 And Laban said: 'This tomb will be a witness between me and you this day.' (And for this reason, its name has been called Gilead, that is, 'Tomb of Witness.')
49 'May the Lord consider and judge between us, when we will have withdrawn from one another.
50 If you afflict my daughters, and if you bring in other wives over them, no one is a witness of our words except God, who understands beforehand.'
51 And again he said to Jacob. 'Lo, this tomb and the stone that I have set up between me and you,
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