~ Pillars and Piles ~

Laban answered Jacob,
"The women are my daughters,
the children are my children,
and the flocks are my flocks.
All you see is mine.
Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine,
or about the children they have borne?
Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I,
and let it serve as a witness between us."

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
He said to his relatives,
"Gather some stones."
So they took stones and piled them in a heap,
and they ate there by the heap.
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,
and Jacob called it Galeed.

Laban said,
"This heap is a witness between you and me today."
That it why it was called Galeed.
It was also called Mizpah, because he said,
"May the Lord keep watch between you and me
when we are away from each other.
If you mistreat my daughter
or if you take wives besides my daughter,
even though no one is with us,
remember that God is a witness between you and me."

So Jacob took an oath
in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.
He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country
and invited his relatives to a meal.
After they had eaten,
they spent the night there.

Early the next morning
Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters
and blessed them.
then he left and returned home.

(Genesis 31:43-22)