Genesis 31:36-55 - Jacob's Covenant With Laban
36 And Jacob was angry, and chided with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that thou have hotly pursued after me? 37 Whereas thou have felt around all my stuff, what have thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brothers and thy brothers, that they may judge between us two. 38 These twenty years I have been with thee, thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and I have not eaten the rams of thy flocks. 39 I did not bring to thee that which was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, of my hand thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41 These twenty years I have been in thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times. 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.
43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou see is mine. And what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their sons whom th 44 And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones, and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap. 47 And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore the name of it was called Galeed, 49 and Mizpah. For he said, May LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another, 50 if thou will afflict my daughters, and if thou will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and thee. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and thee. 52 This heap is witness, and the pillar is witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac. 54 And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread, and tarried all night on the mountain. 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.