52This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 43-55)We have here the compromising of the matter between Laban and Jacob. Laban had nothing to say in reply to Jacob’s remonstrance: he could neither justify himself nor condemn Jacob, but was convicted by his own conscience of the wrong he had done him; and therefore desires to hear no more of the matter He is not willing to own himself in a fault, nor to ask Jacob’s forgiveness, and make him satisfac…
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