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Genesis 31:41-49 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

41. I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

42. Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and the labour of my hands, and has judged last night.

43. And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that thou seest is mine; but as for my daughters, what can I do this day to them, or to their sons whom they have brought forth?

44. And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be a witness between me and thee.

45. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

46. And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap.

47. And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

48. And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,

49. --and Mizpah; for he said, Let Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we shall be hidden one from another:

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