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Genesis 33:16-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

16. So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

17. But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

18. And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.

19. And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

20. There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

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