JETS 48:1 (March 2005) p. 14 what looks to be the building of small sanctuaries. Just as the Gen 1:28 commission was initially to be carried out by Adam in a localized place, enlarging the borders of the arboreal sanctuary, so it appears to be not accidental that the restatement of the commission to Israel's patriarchs results in the following: 1. God appearing to them (except in Gen 12:8; 13:3–4); 2. they "pitch a tent" (literally a "tabernacle" in lxx) 3. on a mountain; 4. they build "altars" and