Patriarchal Government

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Genesis 8:20Torrey EXERCISED IN — Acting as priests

  ¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

• Genesis 9:25Torrey EXERCISED IN — Blessing and cursing their children

  And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

• Genesis 9:26Torrey EXERCISED IN — Blessing and cursing their children

  And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

• Genesis 12:7Torrey EXERCISED IN — Acting as priests

  And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

• Genesis 12:8Torrey EXERCISED IN — Acting as priests

  And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

• Genesis 14:12Torrey EXERCISED IN — Vindicating their wrongs

  And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

• Genesis 14:13Torrey EXERCISED IN — Forming treaties and alliances

  ¶ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

• Genesis 14:14Torrey EXERCISED IN — Training, &c their servants for war

  And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

• Genesis 14:15Torrey EXERCISED IN — Vindicating their wrongs

  And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

• Genesis 14:16Torrey EXERCISED IN — Vindicating their wrongs

  And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

• Genesis 18:19Torrey Vested in the heads of families

  For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

• Genesis 21:14Torrey EXERCISED IN — Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and children

  And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.