It is difficult to say whether the author of the so-called first book of Moses regarded the patriarch Abraham as the owner of his herds in his own right as head of a family community or by right of his position as actual hereditary head of a gens.

• 很难说，亚伯拉罕族长被所谓摩西一经的作者看作畜群的占有者，究竟是由于他作为家庭公社首领所拥有的权利，还是由于他作为实际上世袭的氏族酋长的身分。