Genesis 31:49-51

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⁴⁹and Mizpah (^[a]watchtower), for Laban said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent from one another. ⁵⁰If you should mistreat (humiliate, oppress) my daughters, or if you should take other wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us [as a witness], see and remember, God is witness between you and me.” ⁵¹Laban said to Jacob, “Look at this mound [of stones] and look at this pillar which I have set up between you and me.

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Footnotes

Genesis 31:49 The stone mound evidently was tall enough to be considered a place from which one could see at a distance. The thought behind it was that the Lord would watch them when they could not watch each other, and He would see and deal with any mistreatment committed by either of them (see v 50).