Genesis 31:48 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴⁸ Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁸ 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

⁴⁸ Laban said, This heap is a witness today between you and me. Therefore it was named Galeed.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:

Common English Bible

⁴⁸ Laban said, “This mound is our witness today,” and, therefore, he too named it Galeed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁸ 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.')

Genesis 31:48 Cross References

Genesis 21:30

He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

Genesis 31:23

he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; the Lord our God gave all into our hands.

Deuteronomy 3:16

and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a boundary, as far over as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites;

Joshua 22:27

but to be a witness between us and you, and between the generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings; lest your children say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.” ’

Joshua 22:28

And we thought, If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, ‘Behold the copy of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.’

Joshua 22:34

The Reubenites and the Gadites called the altar Witness; “For,” said they, “it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”

Joshua 24:27

And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of the Lord which he spoke to us; therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”

Judges 10:3

After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.