Genesis 31:49
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The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

Mizpah.

Judges 10:17 And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and camped in Maspha.

Judges 11:11,29 Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the people made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the Lord in Maspha. . . .

Mizpeh.

1 Samuel 7:5 And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

1 Kings 15:22 But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be excused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.

Hosea 5:1 Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over and a net spread upon Thabor.

Context
Jacob's Covenant with Laban
48And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap. 49The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.50If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.…
Cross References
Judges 11:29
Therefore the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephte, and going round Galaad, and Manasses, and Maspha of Galaad, and passing over from thence to the children of Ammon,

1 Samuel 7:5
And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

1 Samuel 7:6
And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath.

1 Samuel 20:23
And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord be between thee and me forever.

Lexicon
and also Mizpah,
וְהַמִּצְפָּה֙ (wə·ham·miṣ·pāh)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4709: Mizpah -- the name of several places in Israel

because
אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

he said,
אָמַ֔ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“May the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

keep watch
יִ֥צֶף (yi·ṣep̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6822: To lean forward, to peer into the distance, to observe, await

between you
בֵּינִ֣י (bê·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 996: An interval, space between

and me
וּבֵינֶ֑ךָ (ū·ḇê·ne·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 996: An interval, space between

when
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

we are absent
נִסָּתֵ֖ר (nis·sā·ṯêr)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5641: To hide, conceal

from one another.
מֵרֵעֵֽהוּ׃ (mê·rê·‘ê·hū)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7453: Friend, companion, fellow


Additional Translations
and also Mizpah, because he said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from one another.And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

and Mizpah, for he said, Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

And the vision of which he said—Let God look to it between me and thee, because we are about to depart from each other, —

-- and Mizpah; for he said, Let Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we shall be hidden one from another:

and Mizpah, for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

Mizpah also, for he said, 'Jehovah doth watch between me and thee, for we are hidden one from another;
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