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Then they ate a meal beside the pile of rocks. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/31-46.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/genesis/31-46.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/31-46.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/31.htm">Chapter 31</a> > Verse 46</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/31-45.htm" title="Genesis 31:45">◄</a> Genesis 31:46 <a href="../genesis/31-47.htm" title="Genesis 31:47">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/31.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/31.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />He told his men to gather some rocks and pile them up. Then they ate a meal beside the pile of rocks. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/31.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />And Jacob said to his kinsfolk, “Gather stones,” and they took stones, and made a heap; and they ate there by the heap.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/31.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />he told his men to get some more rocks and pile them up next to it. Then Jacob and Laban ate a meal together beside the rocks. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/31.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they got stones and made a mound; and they ate there at the mound.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/31.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.</p><p class="hdg">brethren.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/31-23.htm">Genesis 31:23,32,37,54</a> And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad. . . . </p><p class="hdg">Gather.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/4-5.htm">Joshua 4:5-9,20-24</a> And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/7-26.htm">Joshua 7:26</a> And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day And the wrath of the Lord was turned away from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of Achor, until this day.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/18-17.htm">2 Samuel 18:17</a> And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but all Israel fled to their own dwellings.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/3-5.htm">Ecclesiastes 3:5</a> A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.</p><p class="hdg">an heap.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/4-5.htm">Genesis 4:5</a> But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance fell.</p><p class="hdg2">; Ju.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/2-1.htm">Genesis 2:1</a> So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.</p><p class="hdg2">;</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/3-19.htm">Genesis 3:19</a> In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.</p><p class="hdg2">; ch.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/3-20.htm">Genesis 3:20</a> And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.</p><p class="hdg2">.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/7-16.htm">1 Samuel 7:16</a> And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.</p><p class="hdg2">;</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/10-8.htm">1 Samuel 10:8</a> And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down to thee), that thou mayst offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of peace: seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee, and I will shew thee what thou art to do.</p><p class="hdg2">,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/10-17.htm">1 Samuel 10:17</a> And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:</p><p class="hdg2">;</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/11-15.htm">1 Samuel 11:15</a> And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul king, before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of peace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced exceedingly.</p><p class="hdg2">;</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/13-7.htm">1 Samuel 13:7</a> And some of the Hebrews passed over the Jordan into the land of Gad and Galaad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal, all the people that followed him were greatly afraid.</p><p class="hdg2">;</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/15-33.htm">1 Samuel 15:33</a> And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.</p><p class="hdg2">.</p><p class="hdg2">2Sa.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/19-15.htm">1 Samuel 19:15</a> And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.</p><p class="hdg2">,</p><p class="hdg2">40</p><p class="hdg2">2Ki.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/2-1.htm">1 Samuel 2:1</a> My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.</p><p class="hdg2">.) as temples, and as places for holding councils, and assembling the people. For a satisfactory elucidation of this subject, consult the Fragments to Calmet, Nos.</p><p class="hdg2">156,</p><p class="hdg2">735,</p><p class="hdg2">736</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/31.htm">Jacob's Covenant with Laban</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">45</span>And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title. <span class="reftext">46</span><span class="highl">And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.</span><span class="reftext">47</span>And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/31-45.htm">Genesis 31:45</a></span><br />And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/31-47.htm">Genesis 31:47</a></span><br />And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/27-33.htm">Ate</a> <a href="/genesis/28-20.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/genesis/29-7.htm">Gather</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-4.htm">Heap</a> <a href="/genesis/31-45.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/31-37.htm">Kinsmen</a> <a href="/genesis/27-31.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/genesis/22-9.htm">Piled</a> <a href="/genesis/31-37.htm">Relatives</a> <a href="/genesis/28-11.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/genesis/31-18.htm">Together</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/31-54.htm">Ate</a> <a href="/genesis/31-54.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/genesis/34-30.htm">Gather</a> <a href="/genesis/31-48.htm">Heap</a> <a href="/genesis/31-47.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/31-54.htm">Kinsmen</a> <a href="/genesis/31-54.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/exodus/8-14.htm">Piled</a> <a href="/genesis/31-54.htm">Relatives</a> <a href="/genesis/31-48.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/genesis/33-12.htm">Together</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/31-46.htm">Genesis 31:46 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a and ate by Gather He heap his in Jacob kinsmen made piled relatives said So some stones the them there they to took<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/31-46.htm">OT Law: Genesis 31:46 Jacob said to his relatives Gather stones (Gen. 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