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Genesis 33:20

The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 33:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And he erected there an altar,—as Abram his ancestor had done ()—and called it—not invoked upon it, invocavit super illud (Vulgate), ἐτεκαλήσατο (LXX.), but named it (Dathe, Rosenmüller, Keil, &c.)—El-elohe-Israel—i.e. God, the God of Israel; meaning, he called it the altar of God, the God of Israel (Rosenmüller), or, reading el as a preposition, "To the God of Israel".

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