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Genesis 31:47

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And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

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Genesis 31:47 in other translations

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Genesis 31:47 · World English Bible

Genesis 31:47 in context

  1. 45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
  2. 46And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there by the heap.
  3. 47And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
  4. 48And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
  5. 49and Mizpah, for he said, Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.