Genesis 31:47

And Laban called it This verse, which anticipates and does not agree with Genesis 31:48, must be a learned gloss.

Laban the Syrian (cf. Genesis 31:20; Genesis 28:5) gives an Aramaic name, Jacob the Hebrew gives a Hebrew name. In the region of Gilead, in later times, both languages were probably spoken 1 [25].

[25] "Pillars of testimony" occur to-day in groups at many places, especially where the traveller first catches sight of some sacred spot. Thereupon he sets stones one upon the other in the shape of a column, and says, "Oh, so and so (mentioning the name of the saint whose welihe sees), as I by this bear testimony to thee, so do thou bear testimony to me in the day of judgment" (Peters, Early Hebrew Story, p. 111f.).