And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with men, and have prevailed.
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
And Noah built an altar to the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Why David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be you, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.