Genesis 33:20

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And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

The Lord

appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the

oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.