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vv.$47. 49a$; in $51$;  and  in $52$: on these v.i. Nearly all are retained by G, where, however, the confusion is increased by a complete change in the order of clauses: $48a. 47. 51. 52a. 48b. 49. 50a. 52b$,—$50b$ being inserted| after $44$.—The analysis works out in translation as follows (glosses being enclosed in square brackets, and necessary additions and corrections in ⸢ ⸣):

J: $44$ And now (the speaker is Laban), come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and it shall be for a witness between me and thee. $46$ And ⸢he⸣ (i.e. Laban) [Jacob], said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a cairn, and they ate there upon the cairn. [$47$ And Laban called it Y$e$gar Sāhădûthā, but Jacob called it Gal'ēd.] $48$ And Laban said, This cairn is a witness between me and thee this day; therefore he called its name ⸢Gil'ad⸣ [$49a$ and Miẓpah, for he said]. $51$ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this cairn [and behold the pillar] which I have thrown up between me and thee—$52$ a witness is this cairn [and a witness is the pillar]: I will not pass this cairn to thee, and thou shalt not pass this cairn [and this pillar] to me, with evil intent. $53a$ The God of Abraham and the God of Naḥor be Judge between us! [the God of their father].

E: $45$ And ⸢he⸣ (i.e. Laban) [Jacob] took a stone and set it up as a pillar. $49ab$ ⸢and he said⸣, May ⸢God⸣ [Yahwe] watch between me and thee, when we are hidden from one another. $50$ If thou ill-treat my daughters, or take other wives besides my daughters, no man being with us, see, God is witness between me and thee. $53b$ And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. $54$ And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brethren to eat bread; and they ate bread, and spent the night on the mountain.

44. Cf. 21$23ff.$ 26$28ff.$—The subj. of cannot be , which is fem., and is rather the fact to be witnessed to than a witness of something else. There must be a lacuna before , where we must suppose that some material object (probably the cairn: cf. $48$, J) was mentioned.—45 (E). And he took a stone] Since it is Laban who explains the meaning of the stone ($49$), it must have been he who set it up; hence is to be deleted as a false explication of the implicit

44b. The omitted words (v.s.) might be or some such expression (Ols. Di. Ba. Gu. al.). To the end of the v. G appends: