Genesis 31:48
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.”
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“Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Laban saith, `This heap <FI>is<Fi> witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 31:48 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 31:23So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
- Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
- Deuteronomy 3:16and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
- Joshua 13:8The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had assigned to them:
- Joshua 22:27Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’
- Joshua 22:28Therefore we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD that our fathers made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’
- Joshua 22:34So the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar Witness, for they said, “It is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”
- Joshua 24:27And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”
- Judges 10:3Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
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