Patriarchal Government: Vested in the Heads of Families
Patriarchal Government: Exercised In
Training, &c their servants for war
Vindicating their wrongs
Forming treaties and alliances
Acting as priests
Gen 8:20; 12:7,8; 35:1-7; Job 1:5
Acting as judges
Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and children
Blessing and cursing their children
Gen 9:25,26; 27:28,29; 49:1-33
The authority of heads of families for, acknowledged
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