Adoption

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: A By: James P. Boyd

(a choosing to). Receiving a stranger into one’s family as an own child thereof (Ex. 2:10; Esther 2:7). Figuratively, reception into the family of God (Rom. 8:15-17; Gal. 4:5; Eph. 1:5).

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