Adoption

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningGenesis 15:3
• OF CHILDREN. INSTANCES OF
• Of Joseph's sonsGenesis 48:5Genesis 48:14Genesis 48:16Genesis 48:22
• Of MosesExodus 2:5–10Acts 7:21Hebrews 11:24
• Of EstherEsther 2:7
• SPIRITUALExodus 4:22Exodus 4:23Numbers 6:27Deuteronomy 14:1Deuteronomy 26:18Deuteronomy 27:9Deuteronomy 28:10Deuteronomy 32:5Deuteronomy 32:62 Samuel 7:141 Chronicles 22:101 Chronicles 28:62 Chronicles 7:14Proverbs 14:26Isaiah 8:18Isaiah 43:6Isaiah 43:7Isaiah 63:8Isaiah 63:16Jeremiah 3:19
• TYPIFIED, in IsraelExodus 4:22
• See God, Fatherhood of
• See Righteous, Union of, with Christ

The passages, in Bible order (66)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 15:3

   Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

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   “Let us also consider what recompense he requests from the Lord. He does not ask for riches, as would a greedy person, nor for a long life in this world, as would one who fears death, nor for power. Rather he asks for an heir worthy of his work. "What will you give me?"—he says—"I am about to depart without children." And then he says, "Because you have not given me posterity, a slave born in my house will be my heir." Let everyone learn therefore not to despise marriage.

   “And Abram said, behold, to me thou hast given no seed,....

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2. Genesis 48:5

   And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 48:51 voice

   “Joseph was eager to receive the blessing (Gen. XLVIII, 1 et seq.). Finally, he presented his sons Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Jacob blessed. And because he had twelve sons, and the thirteenth was to be the apostle Paul, as if a later chosen one, the thirteenth Tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim were sanctified in both, so that Paul would not be found outside the number of the paternal Tribes, who was an outstanding preacher of the Old and New Testament and could easily prove his inheritance of the paternal blessing.

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3. Genesis 48:14

   But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 48:142 voices

   “Although these mysteries are glorious in this, that Joseph, taking his sons whom he had adopted in Egypt, Ephraim, he placed at his right hand, but Manasseh at his left, so that Israel, their father, was on their right side. But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon the head of Ephraim, who was the younger and stood at his left side; and his left hand he laid upon Manasseh, who was at his right side. And thus, changing his hands, he blessed them.

   “And Israel stretched out his right hand,....

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4. Genesis 48:16

   the angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

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   “The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,....

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5. Genesis 48:22

   And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 48:221 voice

   “(Verse 22.) And I gave ((Or, do)) to you Sicima, the special one, over your brothers, which I received from the hands of the Amorites with my sword and arrow. Sicima, according to Greek and Latin custom, is declined. Otherwise, in Hebrew it is called Sichem, as John the Evangelist also testifies (IV, 5): although erroneously, it is read as Sichar, the error has prevailed: and now it is the city of Neapolis, the city of the Samaritans.

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6. Exodus 2:5–10

   Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

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   “And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river,....

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7. Exodus 4:22

   Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,

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   “Why too does he blame Pharaoh, saying, "You will not let my people go; behold, I will smite all the firstborn in Egypt, even your firstborn," and all the rest that is recorded as being said by God through Moses to Pharaoh? It is incumbent on him who believes that the Scriptures are true and that God is just, if he is a thoughtful man, to take pains to show how God, in using such expressions as these, can be clearly conceived to be just.

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8. Exodus 4:23

   and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”

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   “And I say unto thee, let my son go, that he may serve me,....

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9. Numbers 6:27

   So they shall put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

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   “And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel,....

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10. Deuteronomy 14:1

    You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

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    “Ye are the children of the Lord your God,.... Some of them were so by the special grace of adoption, and all of them by national adoption; which was the peculiar privilege of the people of Israel, and laid them under great obligation to honour and obey the Lord their God, who stood in the relation of a father to them, and they of children to him, Mal 1:

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11. Deuteronomy 26:18

    And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

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    “These are evidently symbolic—hands, of action; heart, of deliberation; mouth, of speech. There is an excellent text on the subject of the penitent: "You have chosen God today to be your God, and the Lord has chosen you today to be his people." God makes his own the person who is eager to serve truth and reality and comes as a suppliant. Even if he is only one in number, he is honored on equal terms with the whole people. He is a part of the people.

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12. Deuteronomy 27:9

    Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

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    “And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,.... The priests who were Levites, as all the priests that were lawful ones were; and there were none but such at this time, who were.

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13. Deuteronomy 28:10

    Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

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    “And all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord,.... Called his children, his people, his portion, and his inheritance; and that they are his, and he is theirs, by the care he takes of them, the provision he makes for them, and the protection they have from him: and they shall be afraid of thee; as not only the Canaanites were, but all other nations; see Deu 11:25.

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14. Deuteronomy 32:5

    His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

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    “They have corrupted themselves,....

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15. Deuteronomy 32:6

    Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:61 voice

    “But if the Lord himself is Creator of all things, we must consider in what manner he is said "to have acquired" what is without doubt his own. It is said also in another song in Deuteronomy: "Is not he himself your God who made you and created you and acquired you?" For each one appears to acquire that which was not his own. Indeed, on this basis the heretics also say of the Savior that he "acquired" those who were not his; for with the price which was paid he purchased men whom the Creator had made.

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16. 2 Samuel 7:14

    I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

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    “So that you ought rather to desist from the love of strife, and repent before the great day of judgment come, wherein all those of your tribes who have pierced this Christ shall mourn as I have shown has been declared by the Scriptures.

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