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Selected Verse: Genesis 4:26 - Strong Concordance

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Ge 4:26 Strong Concordance And to Seth [08352], to him [01931] also there was born [03205] a son [01121]; and he called [07121] his name [08034] Enos [0583]: then began men [02490] to call [07121] upon the name [08034] of the LORD [03068].
  King James And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
men began to call upon the name of the Lord--rather, by the name of the Lord. God's people, a name probably applied to them in contempt by the world.
 
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25 And he builded [01129] an altar [04196] there, and called [07121] upon the name [08034] of the LORD [03068], and pitched [05186] his tent [0168] there: and there Isaac's [03327] servants [05650] digged [03738] a well [0875].
8 And he removed [06275] from thence unto a mountain [02022] on the east [06924] of Bethel [01008], and pitched [05186] his tent [0168], having Bethel [01008] on the west [03220], and Hai [05857] on the east [06924]: and there he builded [01129] an altar [04196] unto the LORD [03068], and called [07121] upon the name [08034] of the LORD [03068].