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What Does “Kindred” Mean in the Bible?

All of a person’s relatives: his family.

Where it appears in the Bible

Genesis 12:1; Genesis 24:4

What the Bible says

Genesis 12:1

And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Genesis 24:4

But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “parentela”

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