Genesis 33:20 “There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.”

Genesis 33:20

There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

World English Bible

He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

American Standard Version

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Geneva Bible 1599

And he set vp there an altar, and called it, The mightie God of Israel.

Darby Translation

And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Young's Literal Translation

and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God — the God of Israel.

Bible in Basic English

And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.

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Cross references

“altar”

Genesis 21:33 Genesis 8:20 Genesis 13:18 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 12:8

Genesis 21:33 · BSB

And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

Genesis 8:20 · BSB

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 13:18 · BSB

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 12:7 · BSB

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring. ” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12:8 · BSB

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

“Elelohe-Israel”

Genesis 35:7 Genesis 32:28

Genesis 35:7 · BSB

There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

Genesis 32:28 · BSB

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

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