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.