Children: Power of Parents Over, During the Patriarchal Age

When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

…he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”