Genesis 33:20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.

English Standard Version
There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

New American Standard Bible
Then he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

King James Bible
And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

Holman Christian Standard 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.

American Standard Version
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

Darby Bible Translation
And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel.

Cross References

John 4:20
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Genesis 33:19
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

Genesis 34:1
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

33:17-20 Jacob did not content himself with words of thanks for God's favour to him, but gave real thanks. Also he kept up religion, and the worship of God in his family. Where we have a tent, God must have an altar. Jacob dedicated this altar to the honour of El-elohe-Israel, God, the God of Israel; to the honour of God, the only living and true God; and to the honour of the God of Israel, as a God in covenant with him. Israel's God is Israel's glory. Blessed be his name, he is still the mighty God, the God of Israel. May we praise his name, and rejoice in his love, through our pilgrimage here on earth, and for ever in the heavenly Canaan.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20. and he erected … an altar—A beautiful proof of his personal piety, a most suitable conclusion to his journey, and a lasting memorial of a distinguished favor in the name "God, the God of Israel." Wherever we pitch a tent, God shall have an altar.