"Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee." — Genesis 31:44

Genesis 31:44 · KJV

“Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.”

— Genesis 31:44

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, {These} daughters {are} my daughters, and {these} children {are} my children, and {these} cattle {are} my cattle, and all that thou seest {is} mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

Verse 45

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up {for} a pillar.

Genesis 31 — Context

Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked {thee} yesternight.

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up {for} a pillar.

And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

Cross References

1 Samuel 20:14-17

And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:

Joshua 24:25-27

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Joshua 22:27

But {that} it {may be} a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.

Genesis 26:28-31

And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, {even} betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; {We saw...: Heb. Seeing we saw}

Genesis 21:22-32

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God {is} with thee in all that thou doest:

Genesis 31:48

And Laban said, This heap {is} a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

Deuteronomy 31:26

Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

Deuteronomy 31:19

Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.