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Genesis 12:8

World English Bible

He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

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Genesis 12:8 in other translations

And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 12:8 · American Standard Version

Genesis 12:8 in context

  1. 6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.
  2. 7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”
    He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
  3. 8He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
  4. 9Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
  5. 10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.