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49 And [the pillar or monument was called] Mizpah [watchpost], for he [Laban] said, May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent and hidden one from another.

50 If you should afflict, humiliate, or lower [divorce] my daughters, or if you should take other wives beside my daughters, although no man is with us [to witness], see (remember), God is witness between you and me.

51 And Laban said to Jacob, See this heap and this pillar, which I have set up between you and me.

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49 It was also called Mizpah,[a](A) because he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. 50 If you mistreat(B) my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness(C) between you and me.”(D)

51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap,(E) and here is this pillar(F) I have set up between you and me.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:49 Mizpah means watchtower.