PATRIARCHAL GOVERNMENT

PATRIARCHAL GOVERNMENT: - Vested in the heads of families Ge 18:19 - EXERCISED IN . Training, 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