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Patriarchal Government

 

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
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