Motif
Altar establishment after safe arrival
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Genesis Footnotes / Chapter 32 / Footnotes / Chapter 33; lines 2166-2211 confidence: high
Jacob arrives peacefully at Shechem in Canaan from Paddan Aram, encamps, buys a parcel of ground from the children of Hamor for one hundred pieces of money, and erects an altar named El Elohe Israel.
After arriving in peace at Shechem and purchasing ground, Jacob erects an altar and names it El Elohe Israel.
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