Genesis 31:48 - The Scriptures 2009

And Laḇan said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why its name was called Gal‛ĕḏ,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Laban said, This heap is a witness today between you and me. Therefore it was named Galeed.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:

Common English Bible

Laban said, “This mound is our witness today,” and, therefore, he too named it Galeed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Laban said: "This tomb will be a witness between me and you this day." (And for this reason, its name has been called Gilead, that is, 'Tomb of Witness.')

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day; and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

Genesis 31:48 Cross References

Genesis 21:30

And he said, “Take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, to be my witness that I have dug this well.”

Genesis 31:23

Then he took his brothers with him and pursued him for seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gil‛aḏ.

Deuteronomy 2:36

“From Aro‛ĕr, which is on the edge of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is by the wadi, as far as Gil‛aḏ, there was not one city too high for us. יהוה our Elohim gave all to us.

Deuteronomy 3:16

And to the Re’uḇĕnites and the Gaḏites I gave from Gil‛aḏ as far as the wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as the border, as far as the wadi Yabboq, the border of the children of Ammon,”

Joshua 22:27

but to be a witness between you and us and our generations after us, to do the service of יהוה before Him with our ascending offerings, with our slaughterings, and with our peace offerings, that your sons should not say to our sons in time to come, “You have no portion with יהוה.” ’

Joshua 22:28

“So we said that it shall be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, ‘See the pattern of the slaughter-place of יהוה which our fathers made, though not for ascending offerings nor for slaughterings, but it is a witness between you and us.’

Joshua 22:34

And the children of Re’uḇĕn and the children of Gaḏ called the slaughter-place, “A witness between us that יהוה is Elohim.”

Joshua 24:27

And Yehoshua said to all the people, “See, this stone is a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of יהוה which He spoke to us. And it shall be a witness against you, lest you lie against your Elohim.”

Judges 10:3

And after him arose Ya’ir, a Gil‛aḏite, and he ruled Yisra’ĕl twenty-two years.