John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 31:51

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Laban said to Jacob, etc.] Continued speaking to him, as follows: behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar which I have cast betwixt me and thee; the heap of stones seems to be gathered and laid together by the brethren, and the pillar to be erected by Jacob; and yet Laban says of them both, that he cast them, or erected them, they being done by his order, or with his consent, as well as Jacob’s; unless the pillar can be thought to design another beside that which Jacob set up, and was like that, a single stone at some little distance from the heap: but the Samaritan and Arabic versions read, “which thou hast seen or set”, etc. agreeably to (<013145>Genesis 31:45).

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