He said, “You are to accept the seven ewe-lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”
Genesis 31:48 - Tree of Life Version And Laban said, “This pile is a witness between me and you today.” That is why its name is 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 are to accept the seven ewe-lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”
he took his relatives with him and pursued him a seven days’ journey. Then he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
From Aroer which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon and the city by the wadi, all the way up to the Gilead, there was not a town too high for us. Adonai our God gave everything over to us.
To the Reubenite and Gadites I gave from the Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon—the middle of the wadi as the border—and as far as Jabbok, the wadi that is the border of the sons of Ammon,
but as a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, so that we may do the service of Adonai before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices and with our fellowship offerings. Then your children may not say to our children in times to come. “You have no share in Adonai!”’
Therefore we said: ‘If they say such to us or to our future generations, then we will say, “See the replica of the altar of Adonai which our fathers made—not for burnt offering or for sacrifice, but as a witness between us and you.”’
So the children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar, “for it is a witness between us that Adonai is God.”
Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone will be a witness to us. For it has heard all the words of Adonai which He has spoken to us. So it will be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.”