THE TOPICAL BIBLE — from Nave’s Topical Bible

Nave’s Topical Bible — public domain, printed whole.

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FROM TORREY’S TOPICAL TEXTBOOK (1897)

Torrey’s Topical Textbook (1897) — public domain, printed whole.

- 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