Genesis 33:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.”
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BSBPD
“There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And he erected there an altar, and called it El–elohe–Israel.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God--the God of Israel.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Genesis 33:20 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 8:20Then 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 12:7Then 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 12:8From 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.
- Genesis 13:18So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
- Genesis 21:33And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
- Genesis 32:28Then 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.”
- Genesis 35:7There 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.
- 1 Chronicles 29:10Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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