Covenants make families. By means of a covenant, family ties can be extended. Through a covenant anyone may be adopted into a family as a son and a brother. Covenant scholar Paul Kalluveettil explains that “a covenant implies an adoption into the household, an extension of kinship, the making of a brother.”1 While contracts simply involve the exchange of goods, covenants involve the exchange of persons.2 In a covenant, one gives
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