The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 31:45

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar—or Matzebah, as a memorial or witness of the covenant about to be formed (Genesis 31:52); a different transaction from the piling of the stone-heap next referred to (of.

Genesis 28:18; Joshua 14:1-15 :27).

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