Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
set up an altar, and named it El-elohe-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.”
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
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 a parcel of land for 100 pieces of silver from the descendants of Hamor, Shechem's father. He pitched his tent there, 20 set up an altar, and named it El-elohe-israel.
Cross References
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird.
Genesis 12:7-8
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I'll give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and settled beside the oaks of Mamre that are by Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD God Everlasting.
Genesis 32:28
"Your name won't be Jacob anymore," the man replied, "but Israel, because you exerted yourself against both God and men, and you've emerged victorious."
Genesis 35:7
He built an altar there to God and named the place El Beth-el, because God had revealed himself there when he was fleeing from his brother.