Genesis 33:20

In 11 translations

BSB

There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.El-Elohe-Israel means God is the God of Israel or mighty is the God of Israel.

KJV

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.El-elohe-Israel: that is God the God of Israel

WEB

He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.El Elohe Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty”.

ASV

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

LSV

and he sets up there an altar, and proclaims at it God—the God of Israel.

YLT

and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God — the God of Israel.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

And he set vp there an altar, and called it, The mightie God of Israel.

JPS

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

LXXE

And he set up there an altar, and called on the God of Israel.

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WLC

וַיַּצֶּב־שָׁ֖ם מִזְבֵּ֑חַ וַיִּ֨קְרָא־ל֔וֹ אֵ֖ל אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἔστησεν ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον, καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο τὸν Θεὸν Ἰσραήλ.

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• Genesis 35:7There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
• Genesis 21:33And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
• Genesis 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
• Genesis 8:20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• Genesis 13:18So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
• Genesis 12:7–8Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him. From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and…

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