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Want to know what the Bible says about Adoption? Here are 149 Bible verses about Adoption from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Exodus 2:5-10 NIV
5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
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Hebrews 11:24 NIV
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
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Exodus 4:22-23 NIV
22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’”
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Deuteronomy 14:1 NIV
You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
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Deuteronomy 26:18 NIV
And the Lord has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands.
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Deuteronomy 27:9 NIV
Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the Lord your God.
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Deuteronomy 28:10 NIV
Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you.
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Deuteronomy 32:5-6 NIV
5 They are corrupt and not his children;
    to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
6 Is this the way you repay the Lord,
    you foolish and unwise people?
Is he not your Father, your Creator,
    who made you and formed you?
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2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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Isaiah 43:6-7 NIV
6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
    and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring my sons from afar
    and my daughters from the ends of the earth
7 everyone who is called by my name,
    whom I created for my glory,
    whom I formed and made.
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