40. The scorching heat during the day and the cold at night wore me down, and I lost a lot of sleep.
41. I’ve been with your household 20 years now. I worked for you 14 years for your two daughters and 6 years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
42. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away empty-handed by now. God has seen my misery and hard work, and last night he made it right.”
43. Then Laban answered Jacob, “These are my daughters, my grandchildren, and my flocks. Everything you see is mine! Yet, what can I do today for my daughters or for their children?
44. Now, let’s make an agreement and let it stand as a witness between you and me.”
45. Jacob took a stone and set it up as a marker.
46. Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” They took stones, put them into a pile, and ate there by the pile of stones.
47. ⌊In his language⌋ Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha [Witness Pile], but Jacob called it Galeed.
48. Laban said, “This pile of stones stands as a witness between you and me today.” This is why it was named Galeed
49. and also Mizpah [Watchtower], because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we’re unable to see each other.
50. If you mistreat my daughters or marry other women behind my back, remember that God stands as a witness between you and me.”
51. Laban said to Jacob, “Here is the pile of stones, and here is the marker that I have set up between you and me.
52. This pile of stones and this marker stand as witnesses that I will not go past the pile of stones to harm you, and that you will not go past the pile of stones or marker to harm me.
53. May the God of Abraham and Nahor—the God of their father—judge between us.”So Jacob swore this oath by the Fear of his father Isaac
54. and offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.
55. Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and went back home.