42. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, you would now have sent me away empty-handed. But God saw my plight and the fruits of my toil, and last night he reproached you.”
43. Laban replied to Jacob: “The daughters are mine, their children are mine, and the flocks are mine; everything you see belongs to me. What can I do now for my own daughters and for the children they have borne?
44. Come, now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and it will be a treaty between you and me.”
45. Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a sacred pillar.
46. Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they got stones and made a mound; and they ate there at the mound.
47. Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48. Laban said, “This mound will be a witness from now on between you and me.” That is why it was named Galeed—
49. and also Mizpah, for he said: “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.