And Jacob said to his kinsfolk, “Gather stones,” and they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Genesis 31:47 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha [witness heap, in Aramaic ], but Jacob called it Galeed [witness heap, in Hebrew. ] American Standard Version (1901) And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. Common English Bible Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. Catholic Public Domain Version And Laban called it, 'Tomb of Witness,' and Jacob, 'Pile of Testimony;' each of them according to the fitness of his own language. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Laban called it, The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language. |
And Jacob said to his kinsfolk, “Gather stones,” and they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Then they came to Gilead and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites, and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
The Reubenites and the Gadites called the altar Witness, “for,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”