So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

But Jacob traveled to Succoth where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called Succoth.

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.

When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.