42. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night.”
43. Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?
44. Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us.”
45. So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.
46. Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.