Moreover by day the heat consumed me, and
the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have
I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years
for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast
changed my reward ten times. And except the God of my father, the
God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth, had been with me:
surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my
tribulation, and the labour of my, hands: and rebuked thee
yesterday. Laban answered and said unto Iacob: the daughters are
my daughters, and the children are my children, and the sheep are
my sheep, 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? Now therefore come on, let us make a bond, I and thou
together, and let it be a witness between thee and me. Then took
Iacob a stone and set it up on end, and said unto his brethren,
gather stones. And they took stones, and made an heap, and they
ate there, upon the heap. And Laban called it Zegar Sahadutha, but
Iacob called Gilead. Then said Laban: this heap be witness between
thee and me this day (therefore is it called Gilead) and this toot
hill which the LORD {lorde} seeth (said he) be witness between me
and thee when we are departed one from another: that thou shalt
not vex my daughters neither shalt take other wives unto them.
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