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