Genesis 12:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ From there he pulled up [his tent pegs] and departed to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ From there he traveled toward the mountains east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshipped in the LORD’s name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east. He built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

Genesis 12:8 Cross References

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 13:3

He journeyed on by stages from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13:4

to the place where he had made an altar at the first, and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and there called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 22:9

When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.

Genesis 26:25

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Genesis 28:19

He called that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Genesis 31:25

Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsfolk camped in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 33:20

There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Genesis 35:3

then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Genesis 35:7

and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

Genesis 4:26

To Seth also a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to invoke the name of the Lord.

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Nehemiah 11:31

The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

Psalm 116:4

Then I called on the name of the Lord, “O Lord, I pray, save my life!”

Exodus 17:15

And Moses built an altar and called it, The Lord is my banner.

Isaiah 10:28

he has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage;

Joel 2:32

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

Acts 2:21

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

Joshua 18:22

Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Joshua 22:10

When they came to the region near the Jordan that lies in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of great size.

Joshua 7:2

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.

Joshua 8:12

Taking about five thousand men, he set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Joshua 8:17

There was not a man left in Ai who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open and pursued Israel.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the fighting men set out to go up against Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand warriors and sent them out by night

Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel,

Joshua 8:9

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night with the people.

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, “The Lord is peace.” To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

1 Samuel 30:27

It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir,