Genesis 31:48

New American Bible - revised edition

Laban said, “This mound will be a witness from now on between you and me.” That is why it was named Galeed—

Cross References

Genesis 21:30

Abraham answered, “The seven ewe lambs you shall accept from me that you may be my witness that I dug this well.”

Genesis 31:23

Taking his kinsmen with him, he pursued him for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon and from the town in the wadi itself, as far as Gilead, no city was too well fortified for us. All of them the Lord, our God, gave over to us.

Deuteronomy 3:16

and to Reuben and Gad the territory from Gilead to the Wadi Arnon—the middle of the wadi being its boundary—and to the Wadi Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites,

Joshua 22:27

but as witness between us and you and our descendants, that we have the right to provide for the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and communion sacrifices. Now in the future your children cannot say to our children, ‘You have no share in the Lord.’

Joshua 22:28

Our thought was that, if in the future they should speak thus to us or to our descendants, we could answer: ‘Look at the copy of the altar of the Lord which our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or for sacrifices, but to witness between you and us.’

Joshua 22:34

The Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar its name as a witness among them that the Lord is God.

Joshua 24:27

And Joshua said to all the people, “This stone shall be our witness, for it has heard all the words which the Lord spoke to us. It shall be a witness against you, should you wish to deny your God.”

Judges 10:3

Jair the Gileadite came after him and judged Israel twenty-two years.