Parallel Verses
Amplified
There he erected an altar and called it
New American Standard Bible
Then he erected there an altar and called it
King James Version
And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.
Holman Bible
And he set up an altar there and called it “God, the God of Israel.”
International Standard Version
set up an altar, and named it El-elohe-israel.
A Conservative Version
And he erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
American Standard Version
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.
Bible in Basic English
And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.
Darby Translation
And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will set there an altar, and he will call upon it, God the God of Israel.
King James 2000
And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-israel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And there he erected an altar and called it "El Elohe Israel."
Modern King James verseion
And he erected there an altar, and called it El, the God of Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he made there an altar, and there called upon the mighty God of Israel.
NET Bible
There he set up an altar and called it "The God of Israel is God."
New Heart English Bible
He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
The Emphasized Bible
And he set up there an altar, - and called it, El-elohe-Israel.
Webster
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
World English Bible
He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
Youngs Literal Translation
and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel.
Themes
Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of jacob
El-elohe-israel » Name of jacob's altar at salem
jacob » Journeys to shalem, where he purchase a parcel of ground from hamor and erects an altar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 33:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Meets Esau And Settles At Shechem
19
Then he bought the piece of land on which he had pitched his tents from
Cross References
Genesis 8:20
And Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every [ceremonially] clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 12:7-8
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” So Abram built an altar there to [honor] the Lord who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:18
Then Abram broke camp and moved his tent, and came and settled by the [grove of the great] terebinths (oak trees) of Mamre [the Amorite], which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to [honor] the Lord.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord [in prayer],
Genesis 32:28
And He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but
Genesis 35:7
There he built an altar [to worship the Lord], and called the place El-bethel (God of the House of God), because there God had revealed Himself to him when he escaped from his brother.