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Genesis 31:48

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.

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And he said to all the people: Behold, this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the land of Galaad as far as the torrent Arnon: half the torrent; and the confines even unto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:

From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.

But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewe lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace-offerings. And that your children to-morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.

And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for sacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you.

And the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad called the altar which they had built, Our testimony, that the Lord is God.

To him succeeded Jair the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty years:




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