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Patriarchal Government
Vested in the heads of families - Ge 18:19
EXERCISED IN
- Training, &c their servants for war
- Ge 14:14- Vindicating their wrongs
- Ge 14:12,15,16- Forming treaties and alliances
- Ge 14:13; 21:22-32; 26:28-33- Acting as priests
- Ge 8:20; 12:7,8; 35:1-7; Job 1:5- Acting as judges
- Ge 38:24- Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and
children - Ge 21:14; 1Ch 5:1- Blessing and cursing their children
- Ge 9:25,26; 27:28,29; 49:1-33- The authority of heads of families for, acknowledged
- Ge 23:6 Next Topic (Peace)