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19 Then he bought the piece of land on which he had pitched his tents from [a]the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred [b]pieces of money. 20 There he erected an altar and called it [c]El-Elohe-Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 33:19 Lit the hand of the sons.
  2. Genesis 33:19 Heb qesitah, an uncertain measure of weight; a rabbi once reported hearing the ma’ah, a small coin worth 1/12 of a shekel, called a qesitah.
  3. Genesis 33:20 I.e. God, the mighty God of Israel.

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