marked an agreement between two people, with God as their watching witness,
Laban and Jacob make a covenant together as narrated in Genisis 31:44-54
Jacob had secretly fled the house of Laban, his father-in-law, in the middle of the night, taking flocks of animals,
all his other assets, and his two wives and their children (the daughters and grandchildren of Laban) with him,
intending never to return. Laban discovered this and pursued Jacab. After discussion, the two decided to formalise
the separation.
Laban admitted that his daughters had voluntarily left, saying "(What can I do to these daughters or to the
children which they have bore?" (Genisis 31:43). He agreed to let Jacob go in peace, but exacted a promise from
Jacob to never a use his daughters or take additional wives (Genesis 31:50).
The two men then determined to erect a pile of stones, a figurative watchtower, called mizpah, to commemorate this promise, even though no person other than the two men when it was made, for "God is witness between you and me."
Both men also agreed they would consider the mizpah a border between their respective territories, and that would
not pass the watchtower to visit one another "to do evil" (Genisis 31-52).
MIZPAH---emotional bond.