'El appears in some El
epithets in Genesis 49:25-26 (e.g. 'el 'ābîkā and 'el šadday),
which appear separately from Yahweh in v.18. Genesis 49:25-26 has, together
with Psalm 68:11-15, preserved a memory of El and Yahweh as independent
deities. This is significant due to the later identification of El Shad- day
and Yahweh in Exodus 6:2-3. In Psalm 82:1 and Isaiah 14:13, the name 'el
is deployed in the context of the divine assembly, which is suggestive of the
Canaanite background of El. (Aleksander Krogevoll, I Appeared as El Shadday:
Tracing the Origins of the God of Israel [Forschungen zur Religion und
Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 292; Gōttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025], 45)
