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APIS Translation (English)
[Side 1:] God saw the labor of my hands and reproved you yesterday. Laban answered and said to Jacob, *The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the animals are my animals, and all that you see is mine. And as for my daughters, what shall I do to them today, and to the children they have borne? Now then, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it shall be for a witness between me and you.* And he said to him, *Behold, there is no one with us. See, God is witness between me and you.* And Jacob took a stone and set it as a pillar. And Jacob said to his brothers, *Gather stones,* and they gathered stones and made a heap... [Side 2:] Laban said to Jacob, *Behold, this heap and this pillar which I set up between you and me, this heap testifies, and this pillar testifies; therefore its name was called *heap testifies.* And the vision which they saw, *May God deliver between me and you, because we are departing one from the other. If you humiliate my daughters, if you take wives in addition to my daughters, see, no one is with us. For if I should not cross over to you, neither should you cross over this heap and this pillar, upon pain of trouble. The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor shall judge between us.* And Jaocb swore