Genesis 31:45
43 But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
46 and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
- KJV
- And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
- WEB
- Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
- ASV
- And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
- DARBY
- And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
- BLB
- And Jacob took a stone and raised it up [as] a pillar.
- ÅB
- Da tok Jakob en stein og reiste den opp som en minnestein.
- OTB
- Så tok Jakob en stein og reiste den som en støtte.
- B1930
- Da tok Jakob en sten og reiste den op som en minnesten.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 28:18–22
Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
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