Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
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Gill's Exposition
And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha,.... Which in the Syriac and Chaldee languages signifies "an heap of witness"; it being, as after observed, a witness of the covenant between Laban and Jacob:
but…
- Jacob’s Flight from Haran 19. תרפים terāpı̂ym, Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. It is…
We have here the compromising of the matter between Laban and Jacob. Laban had nothing to say in reply to Jacob's remonstrance: he could neither justify himself nor condemn Jacob, but was convicted by…
Cambridge Bible
a covenant Cf. Gen 26:28.
a witness Heb. -ed. This word gives the keynote to the transaction, and introduces the play on the word Gilead in Gen 31:31. But "a covenant" is not "a witness." Surely some…
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