Many personal and place names in the patriarchal narratives are Israel Ishmel Beth-el compounds in which one element is El. Israel, Ishmael, Beth-el.

在宗法的叙述中，很多人名与地名,组成中都有El这一元素。

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And so all the time these different gods from different places were basically all said to be simply different cultural representations, different names, for what were generally the same gods all over the place.

所以不同地区的不同神祇,都被认为只是不同的文化表象，不同的名字，大体上都是相同的神。

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