Genesis 31:48 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁸ 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, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

Genesis 31:23

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us: the LORD our God delivered up all before us:

Deuteronomy 3:16

And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border thereof; even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

Joshua 22:27

but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no portion in the LORD.

Joshua 22:28

Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

Joshua 22:34

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: For, said they, it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.

Joshua 24:27

And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.

Judges 10:3

And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.