39. I brought no mangled carcass to you—I bore its loss. From my hand you sought it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40. There I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
41. These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have 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, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”
43. Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters and the grandsons are my grandsons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see, it is mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne?
44. So now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you.”
45. And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a stone pillar.
46. And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones.
47. And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48. Then Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore its name is called Galeed,
49. and Mizpah, because he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you when we are out of sight of each other.
50. If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, when there is no man with us, see—God is a witness between me and you.”
51. And Laban said to Jacob, “See, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you.
52. This pile of stones is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile of stones to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile of stones and this pillar to me intending harm.
53. May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
54. And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal. And they ate the meal and spent the night on the hill.
55. And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his grandsons and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his homeland.