¹⁸ At last Jacob came to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan. Overall it had been a safe and peaceful journey from Paddan-aram. He camped outside of the city ¹⁹ and purchased the land on which he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor (who was Shechem’s father) for one hundred pieces of money. ²⁰ And there also he built an altar he called El-Elohe-Israel, which means “God, the God of Israel.”