Now therefore, come, let us make a covenant, you and me, and let it be a witness between you and me.

And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed;

but that it may be a witness between you and us and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your sons may not say to our sons in time to come, You have no portion in Jehovah.

Therefore we thought that it shall be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Look at the pattern of the altar of Jehovah which our fathers have made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.

And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of Jehovah which He has spoken to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.