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Jacob: Journeys to Shalem, where he Purchase a Parcel of Ground from Hamor and Erects an Altar Genesis 33:18–20

After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city. / And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. / There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.