Genesis 31:50

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

⁴⁹ It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.

If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”

⁵¹ Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

⁵² This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.

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: If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
KJV: If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
WEB: If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
ASV: If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
DARBY: if thou shouldest afflict my daughters, or if thou shouldest take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee!
BLB: If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, [although] no man [is] with us, see [that] God [is] witness between me and between you.”

ÅB: dersom du farer ille med mine døtre eller tar deg andre hustruer foruten mine døtre, da er det vel intet menneske hos oss, men se, Gud er vitne mellom meg og deg.
OTB: Hvis du behandler mine døtre dårlig eller tar andre koner i tillegg til dem, selv om ingen er med oss, husk at Gud er et vitne mellom deg og meg.»
B1930: dersom du farer ille med mine døtre eller tar dig andre hustruer foruten mine døtre, da er det vel intet menneske hos oss, men se, Gud er vidne mellem mig og dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
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Jeremiah 29:23
For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
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Micah 1:2
Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
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Judges 11:10
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
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1 Thessalonians 2:5
As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
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Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
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Matthew 19:5–6
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
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Malachi 2:14
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
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