Genesis 31:51
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.
50 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.”
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.
53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
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.
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- BSB
- Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
- KJV
- And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
- WEB
- Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
- ASV
- And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee.
- DARBY
- And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee:
- BLB
- And Laban said to Jacob, “Behold, this [is] the heap, and behold, the pillar that I have placed between me and between you.
- ÅB
- Så sa Laban til Jakob: Se, denne røs og denne minnestein som jeg har reist mellom meg og deg -
- OTB
- Laban fortsatte til Jakob: «Her er denne haugen, og her er denne støtten jeg har satt opp mellom deg og meg.
- B1930
- Så sa Laban til Jakob: Se, denne røs og denne minnesten som jeg har reist mellem mig og dig -