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Genesis 31:49
“and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.”
Verse in context — Genesis 31
47
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48
Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed
49
and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
50
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.
51
Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
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