39. Whenever a sheep was killed by wild animals, I always bore the loss myself. I didn't take it to you to show that it was not my fault. You demanded that I make good anything that was stolen during the day or during the night.
40. Many times I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was not able to sleep.
41. It was like that for the whole twenty years I was with you. For fourteen years I worked to win your two daughters — and six years for your flocks. And even then, you changed my wages ten times.
42. If the God of my fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac, had not been with me, you would have already sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my trouble and the work I have done, and last night he gave his judgement.”
43. Laban answered Jacob, “These young women are my daughters; their children belong to me, and these flocks are mine. In fact, everything you see here belongs to me. But since I can do nothing to keep my daughters and their children,
44. I am ready to make an agreement with you. Let us make a pile of stones to remind us of our agreement.”
45. So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial.
46. He told his men to gather some rocks and pile them up. Then they ate a meal beside the pile of rocks.
47. Laban named it Jegar Sahadutha, while Jacob named it Galeed.
48. Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks will be a reminder for both of us.” That is why that place was named Galeed.
49. Laban also said, “May the Lord keep an eye on us while we are separated from each other.” So the place was also named Mizpah.
50. Laban went on, “If you ill-treat my daughters or if you marry other women, even though I don't know about it, remember that God is watching us.
51. Here are the rocks that I have piled up between us, and here is the memorial stone.
52. Both this pile and this memorial stone are reminders. I will never go beyond this pile to attack you, and you must never go beyond it or beyond this memorial stone to attack me.