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Yaghar sahdutha by Laban in his Aramaic language, which
means "a heap of witness." But the proper noun they gave
to the erected stone was Mispa (Gen. xxxi. 45-55), which I
prefer to write in its exact Arabic form, Mispha, and this
I do for the benefit of my Muslim readers.

Now this Mispha became later on the most important

place of worship, and a center of the national assemblies in
the history of the people of Israel. It was here that Naphthah

- a Jewish hero - made a vow "before the Lord," and after
beating the Ammonites, he is supposed to have offered his
only daughter as a burnt offering (Judges xi). It was at
Mispha that four hundred thousand swordsmen from the