Genesis 31:49
Good News Translation
Laban also said, "May the LORD keep an eye on us while we are separated from each other." So the place was also named Mizpah.

New Revised Standard Version
and the pillar Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other.

Contemporary English Version
Laban also said, "This pile of rocks means that the LORD will watch us both while we are apart from each other." So the place was also named Mizpah.

New American Bible
and also Mizpah, for he said: “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

Mizpah.

Judges 10:17 And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and camped in Maspha.

Judges 11:11,29 Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the people made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the Lord in Maspha. . . .

Mizpeh.

1 Samuel 7:5 And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

1 Kings 15:22 But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be excused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.

Hosea 5:1 Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over and a net spread upon Thabor.

Context
Jacob's Covenant with Laban
48And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap. 49The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.50If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.…
Cross References
Judges 11:29
Therefore the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephte, and going round Galaad, and Manasses, and Maspha of Galaad, and passing over from thence to the children of Ammon,

1 Samuel 7:5
And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

1 Samuel 7:6
And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath.

1 Samuel 20:23
And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord be between thee and me forever.

Genesis 31:48
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