Genesis 33:20

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

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

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.