World English Bible
Genesis 12:8
“He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.”
Genesis 12:8 in the King James Version
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel 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.Read Genesis 12:8 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Genesis 12
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.
There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Cross references for Genesis 12:8
- Genesis 4:26
There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.
- Nehemiah 11:31
The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
- Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
- Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
- 1 Corinthians 1:2
to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
- Psalms 116:4
Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.
- Genesis 35:3
Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
- Romans 10:12-14
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." How then will they call on him in whom they have not be...
- Joshua 8:3
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
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