And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
Genesis 31:48 - King James Version - American Edition And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Ga´leed, 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. |
And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gil´e-ad.
From Aro´er, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gil´e-ad, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gil´e-ad even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
but that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might 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 part in the Lord.
Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the Lord is God.
And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
And after him arose Ja´ir, a Gil´e-adite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.