noun
the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)
• Syn: ↑Mosaic law
• Hypernyms: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence
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the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Cf. Hagiographa, Prophets.
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law of Moses,
= Pentateuch. (Cf. ↑Pentateuch)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.