There he set up an altar, and he called it, El is Israel’s God.
So Abram moved his tent from place to place, and came and dwelt by Mamre’s large trees, which are in Hebron, and there built an altar to Adonai.
Then he planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and called there on the Name of Adonai, the Everlasting God.
Then He said to him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he said.
He purchased the portion of the field there where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 pieces of money.
Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore for Jacob, went out to look at the daughters of the land.
He built an altar there and called the place El-Beth-El because God had revealed Himself to him there when he fled from the presence of his brother.
Then Noah built an altar to Adonai and he took of every clean domestic animal and of every clean flying creature and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
David blessed Adonai before the whole congregation saying, “Blessed are You, Adonai, God of Israel our father, from eternity to eternity!
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you all say that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”