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Rh, blood-kindred, to the exclusion of "affinity, or relationship by marriage." Neither the original Hebrew nor Greek terms will justify the assertion. Look at his proofs in the paragraphs. , as we have already seen, is a word of extensive signification. In Gen. 6:12, it means all mankind; and in Gen. 7:21, it signifies all animals as well as men. Simon, in his Lexicon, says it means relatives by blood and affinity. That the latter are embraced, see Judg. 9:2, and 2 Sam. 19:11, 12. The passages referred to by Omicron, use the Hebrew word for blood-kindred; but his comment on Num. 27:11, is not correct. He says, "This last passage in Numbers, is especially decisive; for it directs that the inheritance of land, in default of a son or other near heir to any person, shall go to the next of his 'kin;', (she-er,) in his clan or division of his tribe, (not in his family, as in the English version.) But inheritance went only by blood, never by affinity; and in this very instance it passed over all the nearest relations by affinity, to go to a blood-kinsman, however remote. This word, then, did not of itself include even the nearest degrees of affinity."