38 Behold, I have been with thee twenty years; thy sheep and thy goats have not cast out; I have not eaten the rams of thy flock;

39 That which was torn to pieces by the beast I did not bring to thee, it was my loss; thou hast exacted from me, whether by day or by night what has been lost;

40 I languished by day from the heat, and by night from the cold, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

41 Such are my twenty years in thy house. I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.

42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would now have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands, and interceded for me yesterday.

43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, 'My daughters are my daughters; children are my children; The cattle are my cattle, and all that you see is mine: can I do anything now with my daughters and with their children who are born of them?

44 Now let us make a covenant between me and you, and this will be a testimony between me and you. [And Jacob said to him, Behold, there is no one with us; behold, God is a witness between me and thee.]

45 And Jacob took the stone, and set it up as a monument.

46 And Jacob said to his kinsmen, 'Gather stones.' They took stones, and made a hill, and ate [and drank] there on the hill. [And Laban said to him, "This hill is a witness today between me and you."]

47 And Laban called him, Jegar-sagaduth; and Jacob called it Gilead.

48 And Laban said [to Jacob], 'Today this hill [and the monument which I have erected] is a witness between me and thee. Wherefore his name was called Gilead;

49 And also, Mizpah, because Laban said, Let the Lord watch over me and over thee, when we hide ourselves from one another;

50 If you do evil to my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, then although there is no man among us who sees, yet behold, God is a witness between me and you.

51 And Laban said to Jacob, 'This is this hill, and this is the monument which I have set up between me and you;