| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Mary was an heiress (had no brothers) whose father Eli, in line with a biblical tradition concerned with the maintainence of the family line in cases with no male heir (Ezra 2:61 = Neh. 7:63; Num 32:41 cf. 1 Chr. 2:21-22, 34-35; Num 27:3-8), on the marriage of his daughter to Joseph, adopted Joseph as his son.
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