Genesis 33:20
Good News Translation
He put up an altar there and named it for El, the God of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Contemporary English Version
then he set up his tents and built an altar there to honor the God of Israel.

New American Bible
He set up an altar there and invoked “El, the God of Israel.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

altar.

Genesis 8:20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Genesis 12:7,8 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. . . .

Genesis 13:18 So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 21:33 And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.

El-elohe-Israel.

Genesis 32:28 But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

Genesis 35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

Context
Jacob Settles in Shechem
19And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs. 20And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.
Cross References
John 4:20
Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

Genesis 33:19
And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs.

Genesis 34:1
And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.

Genesis 33:19
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