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Genesis 31:39-48 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

39. I did not bring you any of the flock torn by wild beasts; I myself bore the loss. You demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or by night.

40. There I was — the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

41. For 20 years I have worked in your household — 14 years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks — and you have changed my wages 10 times!

42. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night.”

43. Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

44. Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us.”

45. So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.

46. Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.

47. Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.

48. Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed

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