Bible in Basic English
"Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us."
— Genesis 31:44, Bible in Basic English
“Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.”
“And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. ”
“Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."”
“So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.””
These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?
Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.
Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar.
And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.
And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of Galeed.