Genesis 31:38-55

New King James Version

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock. ^39 (A)That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. ^(B)You required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰ There I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes. ⁴¹ Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I ^(C)served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and ^(D)you have changed my wages ten times. ^42 (E)Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and ^(F)the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. ^(G)God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and ^(H)rebuked you last night.”

Laban’s Covenant with Jacob

⁴³ And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne? ⁴⁴ Now therefore, come, ^(I)let us make a ^[a]covenant, ^(J)you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”

⁴⁵ So Jacob ^(K)took a stone and set it up as a pillar. ⁴⁶ Then Jacob said to his brethren, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap. ⁴⁷ Laban called it ^[b]Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it ^[c]Galeed. ⁴⁸ And Laban said, ^(L)“This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed, ⁴⁹ also ^(M)Mizpah,^[d] because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from another. ⁵⁰ If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us—see, God is witness between you and me!”

⁵¹ Then Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this heap and here is this pillar, which I have placed between you and me. ⁵² This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. ⁵³ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father ^(N)judge between us.” And Jacob ^(O)swore by ^(P)the ^[e]Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain. ⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban arose, and ^(Q)kissed his sons and daughters and ^(R)blessed them. Then Laban departed and ^(S)returned to his place.