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Genesis 31:44

What does Genesis 31:44 mean?

A plain-English look at Genesis 31:44 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be a witness between me and thee.

Context

v.43And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?

v.44This passage

v.45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Joshua 24:25

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

  • Joshua 22:27

    but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Jehovah 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 portion in Jehovah.

  • Genesis 31:48

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

  • Deuteronomy 31:21

    And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

  • 1 Samuel 20:14

    And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the lovingkindness of Jehovah, that I die not;

  • Deuteronomy 31:26

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

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