44Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us."


In Context

41 It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages 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 surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you."

43 Laban answered Jacob, "The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?

44 Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us."

45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

46 He said to his relatives, "Gather some stones." So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

Genesis 31:44 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

31:44Come therefore, let us enter into a league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:44And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:44And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be a witness between me and thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:44And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:44Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

31:44and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:44Now therefore come you, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness between me and you.