Vayetzei, Aliyah 7 ויצא, שביעי

Lavan replied and said to Yaakov, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the[se] flocks are my flocks. All that you see is mine. What can I do unto these, my daughters, today, or to their children that they have born.

Now come [therefore] let us make a pact, I and you. Let Him be witness between me and you.

Yaakov took a boulder and raised it as a monument.

Yaakov said to his brethren, Gather stones. They took stones and made a mound, and they ate on the mound.

Lavan called it Yegar Sohadusa, but Yaakov called it Galeid.

Lavan said, This mound is witness between me and you this day. He therefore called its name Galeid.

And [he also called it] Mitzpah [Watchtower] because he said, Adonoy will watch between me and you, when we are concealed from each other[’s sight].

If you afflict my daughters, or marry other wives in addition to my daughters, there may be no man with us, but see, Elohim is witness between me and you.

Lavan said to Yaakov, Here is this mound, and here is this monument that I have cast between me and you.

This mound is witness, and the monument is witness, that I will not cross over to you beyond this mound; and you are not to cross over to me beyond this mound and this monument for harmful purposes.

The God of Avraham and the god of Nachor, the god of their fathers will judge between us. Yaakov swore by the Fear of his father, Yitzchok.

Yaakov slaughtered animals on the mountain, and invited his brethren to eat bread [a meal]. They ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.

Lavan rose early in the morning. He kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them. Lavan departed and returned to his place.

Yaakov went on his way, and the angels of Elohim met him.

When Yaakov saw them, he said, This is Elohim’s camp. He named the place Machanayim.