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== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15492" /> == | |||
<p> Is an act by which a person takes a stranger into his family, acknowledges him for his child, and constitutes him heir of his estate. Jacob's adoption of his two grandsons, [[Ephraim]] and Manasseh, [[Genesis]] 48:5 , was a kind |