31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

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31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”(A)

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32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

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32 With the stones he built an altar in the name(A) of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs[a] of seed.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:32 That is, probably about 24 pounds or about 11 kilograms