18 Afterward, Jacob came safe to Shechem a city, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from [a]Padan Aram, and pitched before the city.

19 And there he bought a parcel of ground, where he pitched his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor Shechem’s father, for an hundred [b]pieces of money.

20 And he set up there an altar, and called [c]it, The mighty God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 33:18 Or, Mesopotamia.
  2. Genesis 33:19 Or, lambs, or money so marked.
  3. Genesis 33:20 He calleth the sign, the thing which it signifieth, in token that God had mightily delivered him.

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