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Genesis 33:18-20
An Altar at Shechem
The Brothers Meet · Genesis 33
Story guide: Jacob arrives safely at Shechem, buys land there, and sets up an altar.
Open this scene in the reader →18Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.
19And he bought the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitahs.
20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
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