'Adopted' in the Bible

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to live.

and when he was left outside, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted and raised him as her own son.

And having spent three months there, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, the resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.

You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,