There he set up an altar and called it &#8220;The God of Israel is God.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So Abram moved his tents and went to live<n id="1" /> by the oaks<n id="2" /> of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the <sc>Lordsc> there.p>

<p class="bodytext">Noah built an altar to the <sc>Lordsc>. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.<n id="1" />

The <sc>Lordsc> appeared to Abram and said, &#8220;To your descendants<n id="1" /> I will give this land.&#8221; So Abram<n id="2" /> built an altar there to the <sc>Lord,sc> who had appeared to him.p>

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.<n id="2" />p>

Let us go up at once<n id="1" /> to Bethel. Then I will make<n id="2" /> an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress<n id="3" /> and has been with me wherever I went.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel<n id="1" /> because there God had revealed himself<n id="2" /> to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

<p class="bodytext">Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel<n id="1" /> and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the <sc>Lordsc> and worshiped the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then God said to Jacob, &#8220;Go up at once<n id="1" /> to Bethel<n id="2" /> and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.&#8221;<n id="3" />