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Genesis 33:20

El-elohe-Israel
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18 After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

19 And 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.

There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
KJV
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
WEB
He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
ASV
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.
DARBY
And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
BLB
And he erected there an altar, and he called it El-Elohe-Israel.
ÅB
Der reiste han et alter og kalte det El Elohe Israel[^3].
[^1]: hytter.
[^2]: en viss vekt sølv eller gull.
[^3]: d.e. Israels Gud er Gud.
OTB
Der satte han opp et alter og kalte det El-Elohe-Israel.
B1930
Der reiste han et alter og kalte det El Elohe Israel. / < d.e. Israels Gud er Gud.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Genesis 35:7

    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.

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  • Genesis 21:33

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

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  • Genesis 32:28

    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.”

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  • Genesis 8:20

    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.

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  • Genesis 12:7–8

    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.

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  • Genesis 13:18

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

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