Genesis 26:25
Good News Translation
Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. Then he set up his camp there, and his servants dug another well.

New Revised Standard Version
So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Contemporary English Version
Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. Then he set up camp, and his servants started digging a well.

New American Bible
So Isaac built an altar there and invoked the LORD by name. After he had pitched his tent there, Isaac’s servants began to dig a well nearby.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.

builded.

Genesis 8:20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Genesis 12:7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:18 So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 22:9 And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

Genesis 33:20 And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

Genesis 35:1 In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.

Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord, my exaltation, saying:

called.

Psalm 116:17 I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

Context
Isaac's Prosperity
24Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. 25And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26
But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12:8
And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

Genesis 13:4
In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

Psalm 116:17
I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 26:24
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