Thematic Bible: During patriarchal age heads of families acted as


Thematic Bible



Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.


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.