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Genesis 31:47 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. "
Genesis 31:47
Verse in Context
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And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
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Genesis 31:1
"And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory."
Genesis 31:2
"And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before."
Genesis 31:3
"And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred;"
Genesis 31:4
"And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,"
Genesis 31:5
"And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been"
Genesis 31:6
"And ye know that with all my power I have served your father."
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