Genesis 33:20 - Exposition

And he erected there an altar, —as Abram his ancestor had done ( Genesis 12:7 )— and called it —not invoked upon it, invocavit super illud (Vulgate), ἐτεκαλήσατο ( LXX .), but named it (Dathe, Rosenmüller, Keil, &c.;)— El-elohe-Israel — i.e. God, the God of Israel; meaning, he called it the altar of God, the God of Israel (Rosenmüller), or, reading el as a preposition, "To the God of Israel".

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