Groups of related households formed a family ( gens ).

The boys were from the same clan, but, alas, from different sub clans.

In the 19th century, this clan controlled 24 villages in the vicinity.

A village or region may believe that a certain type of lemur may be the ancestor of the clan.

The customary procedure is that the victim s family gets to kill someone from the perpetrator s sub clan.

Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor.

Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Therefore thus says Yahweh Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily for it is an evil time.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD for I am married unto you and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion

Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks neither shall ye go haughtily for this time is evil.

If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'

If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

Often, the distinguishing factor is that a clan is a smaller part of a larger society such as a tribe, a chiefdom, or a state.

There are sources that point that the Kelmendi are of Serb origin, that the founder came from the Morača i.e.

Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Every month, from the moneys collected, he pays militia members, his inner circle (advisers and closest associates) and the elders of the clan and makes purchases of arms.

In his pre Christmas speech to the Roman Curia, the pope did not mention rape, let alone the sexual murder in Delhi.

When the envoys (dispatched in order to seek for the future king) arrived on Ganghwa Island, they found the remaining clan of the Yi's barely surviving in wretched poverty.

Restricting criminal liability to actual perpetrators, carefully excluding clansmen and kin, is a fragile historical innovation aimed at interrupting spirals of bloody inter communal violence.

The Indian Band authorized the payment of social assistance for the registered Indians and their children but refused to pay social assistance in respect of the non Indian spouses living on the reserve with their Indian spouse.

The sole purpose of the clan therefore is to look after the land and nurture what exists on it including the obligation to reproduce so that the next generation will take over that responsibility (Van Trease, 1987 Lini, 1995).

In recent months, the most powerful clan, led by Deputy Head of Kremlin Administration Igor Sechin, whose company, Rosneft, received the biggest chunk of Yukos in 2004, has threatened to engulf the others.

Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew and we will destroy the heir also and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

Mr. Ali is a member of the Rahanweyn minority clan of Somalia. He grew up in the city of Baidoa with his family, until clan violence and internal war devastated the country, and many of his family members were killed by armed militias.

The elders of the two sub clans spent four days negotiating a less bloody solution, and the agreed price of 100 camels worth 7,000 was paid as compensation.