Laban also said to Jacob: here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me. The heap and pillar are both named as physical monuments of the covenant. Their repetition makes the covenant tangible: these specific stones, this specific place. The application: the covenant made at a specific place with specific physical markers is the covenant that has weight in memory and accountability.

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