44. “And now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and it shall be a witness between you and me.”
45. So Ya‛aqoḇ took a stone and set it up as a standing column.
46. And Ya‛aqoḇ said to his brothers, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.
47. And Laḇan called it Yeg̅ar Sahaḏutha, but Ya‛aqoḇ called it Gal‛ĕḏ.
48. And Laḇan said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why its name was called Gal‛ĕḏ,
49. also Mitspah, because he said, “Let יהוה watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.
50. “If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us; see, Elohim is witness between you and me!”
51. And Laḇan said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “See this heap and see this standing column, which I have placed between you and me.
52. “This heap is a witness, and this standing column is a witness, that I do not pass beyond this heap to you, and you do not pass beyond this heap and this standing column to me, for evil.