Genesis 31:45-52

⁴⁵Jacob took a stone and set it upright as a pillar.

⁴⁶Jacob called his family around, "Get stones!" They gathered stones and heaped them up and then ate there beside the pile of stones.

⁴⁷Laban named it in Aramaic, Yegar-sahadutha (Witness Monument); Jacob echoed the naming in Hebrew, Galeed (Witness Monument).

⁴⁸Laban said, "This monument of stones will be a witness, beginning now, between you and me." (That''s why it is called Galeed--Witness Monument.)

⁴⁹It is also called Mizpah (Watchtower) because Laban said, "GOD keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other''s sight.

⁵⁰If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives when there''s no one around to see you, God will see you and stand witness between us."

⁵¹Laban continued to Jacob, "This monument of stones and this stone pillar that I have set up is a witness,

⁵²a witness that I won''t cross this line to hurt you and you won''t cross this line to hurt me.