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Genesis 31:45

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45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
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Genesis 31:45 in Other Translations

KJV
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
ESV
45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
NLT
45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a monument.
MSG
45 Jacob took a stone and set it upright as a pillar.
CSB
45 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.

Genesis 31:45 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:45

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
] To show his readiness to agree to the motion, he immediately took a large stone that lay upon the mount, and set it up on one end, to be a standing monument or memorial of the agreement now about to be made between them.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 31:45 In-Context

43 Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?
44 Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”
45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
46 He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

Cross References 1

  • 1. S Genesis 28:18
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