Thematic Bible: During patriarchal age heads of families acted as


Thematic Bible



And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.


And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.