So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Genesis 31:45-46 ESV

Jacob set a single stone and told the other men to pile up stones around it. Are these the nations gathered around Israel? Or perhaps the mixed multitude joined to him? Or the 12 tribes descended from him? Both names given to the marker in v47 mean “witness heap”. Perhaps they are the crowd of martyred witnesses gathered around the faithful remnant of Israel.