Genesis 33:20

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

Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and 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 Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.