42. unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'
43. And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, `The daughters [are] my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing [is] mine; and to my daughters--what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?
44. and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'
45. And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up [for] a standing pillar;