Holy Scripture
Genesis 12:8
A church father on this verse
“Where there is Bethel, that is, the house of God, there is also the altar. Where there is the altar, there is also the calling on the name of God. It is not by chance that he made such great progress. He hoped in the help of God. The athlete of God exercised and strengthened himself in adversity. He went into the dese…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Bethel, and there he pitched his tent in Bethel near the sea, and Ai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.
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6And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Shechem, to the high oak, and the Canaanites then inhabited the land.
7And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to thy seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who appeared to him.
— Genesis 12:8 —
9And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.
10And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.