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Gill's Exposition
And Laban said, this heap is a witness between me and thee this day. A witness of the covenant now about to be made between them that day, and a witness against them should they break it:
therefore…
- 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
Jacob The name "Jacob" is here almost certainly a gloss. We should read either "and he took a stone," or "and Laban took a stone." In Gen 31:31 Laban says that he set up the pillar or maṣṣêbah. Laban…