Genesis 31:44
Good News Translation
I am ready to make an agreement with you. Let us make a pile of stones to remind us of our agreement."

New Revised Standard Version
Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be a witness between you and me.”

Contemporary English Version
So I am ready to make an agreement with you, and we will pile up some large rocks here to remind us of the agreement."

New American Bible
Come, now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and it will be a treaty between you and me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.

let us.

Genesis 15:18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 21:22-32 At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost. . . .

Genesis 26:28-31 And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant, . . .

1 Samuel 20:14-17 And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but if I die, . . .

a witness.

Genesis 31:48,52 And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap. . . .

Genesis 21:30 But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

Deuteronomy 31:19,21,26 Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel. . . .

Joshua 22:27 But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.

Joshua 24:25-27 Joshua therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem. . . .

God can put a bridle into the mouth of wicked man to restrain their malice; and then, though they have no love for his people, they will pretend to it, and try to make a merit of necessity. Scott.

Context
Jacob's Covenant with Laban
43Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren? 44Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.…
Cross References
Genesis 21:27
Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.

Genesis 21:32
And they made a league for the well of oath.

Genesis 26:28
And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

Joshua 24:27
And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Genesis 31:43
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