Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.
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.
Amplified
There he erected an altar and called it
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
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 33:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Meets Esau And Settles At Shechem
19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents. 20 And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.
Cross References
Genesis 8:20
And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
Genesis 12:7-8
And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
Genesis 13:18
And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.
Genesis 21:33
And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
Genesis 32:28
And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
Genesis 35:7
And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.