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Genesis 31:45-54 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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

46. And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.

47. And Laban called it The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.

48. And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

49. The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other.

50. If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

51. And he said again to Jacob: Behold, this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,

52. Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it, thinking harm to me.

53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

54. And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

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