Genesis 31:49 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴⁹ and Mizpah, for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁹ and Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁹ And [the pillar or monument was called] Mizpah [watchpost], for he [Laban] said, May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent and hidden one from another.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁹ and Mizpah, for he said, Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ He also named it Mizpah, because he said, “The LORD will observe both of us when we are separated from each other.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁹ "May the Lord consider and judge between us, when we will have withdrawn from one another.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁹ The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other,

Genesis 31:49 Cross References

1 Kings 15:22

Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for unto you pertain the judgement; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

Judges 10:17

Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.

Judges 11:11

Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.

Judges 11:29

Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

1 Samuel 20:23

And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between thee and me for ever.