He said, *You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.*
Genesis 31:48 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Lavan said, *This heap is witness between me and you this day.* Therefore it was named Gal`ed Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 Laban said, This heap is a witness today between you and me. Therefore it was named Galeed. American Standard Version (1901) And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed: Common English Bible Laban said, “This mound is our witness today,” and, therefore, he too named it Galeed. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 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. |
He said, *You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.*
He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gil`ad.
From `Aro`er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gil`ad, there was not a city too high for us; the LORD our God delivered up all before us:
To the Re'uveni and to the Gadi I gave from Gil`ad even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Yabbok, which is the border of the children of `Ammon;
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 shalom offerings; that your children may not tell our children in time to come, You have no portion in the LORD.
Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so tell 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.
The children of Re'uven and the children of Gad called the altar [`Ed]: For, [said they], it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.
Yehoshua 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: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.
After him arose Ya'ir, the Gil`adite; and he judged Yisra'el twenty-two years.