43 Then Lavan (Laban) responded and told Ya’akov (Jacob), “These women are my daughters, and the children are my grandchildren, and the flocks are my flocks. Everything that you see here belongs to me. But what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about their children that they gave birth to? 44 So come now, let’s make an agreement, I and you, and let it be a witness between me and you.”

45 So Ya’akov took a stone and stood it up longways as a pillar, 46 then he instructed his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they fetched stones and made a pile, then they ate there by the pile. 47 Lavan gave the pile the Aramaic name ‘Yegar Sahadutha’ (which means ‘pile that reminds’) while Ya’akov gave it the Hebrew name ‘Gal’ed’ (which has the same meaning).

48 Then Lavan said, “This pile is a witness of the agreement between me and you today.” (That’s why he’d named it Gal’ed.) 49 It’s also named ‘Mitspah’ (which means ‘watchtower’), because he said, “May Yahweh watch between me and you when we are hidden one from the other. 50 If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, even though there’s not someone there to see it, listen, God will be a witness between me and you.” 51 Then Lavan said to Ya’akov, “Look at this pile of stones, and look at the pillar which I set up between me and you. 52 This pile is a witness and the pillar is a witness that I won’t go past these to you, and that you won’t go past these to me to do harm. 53 May Avraham’s god and the gods of their ancestor Nahor judge between us.” Then Ya’akov swore by the one respected by his father Yitshak (Isaac), 54 and Ya’akov offered a sacrifice on the hill. Then he called his relatives to eat bread and they ate bread and spent the night on the hill. 55 In the morning, Lavan got up early and gave his grandchildren and his daughters a kiss, and he blessed them. Then he left and returned to his place.