Law of Moses

American  

noun

1. 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.

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Law of Moses British  

noun

1. the body of laws contained in the first five books of the Old Testament; Pentateuch

2. Judaism a law or body of laws derived from the Torah in accordance with interpretations (the Oral Law) traditionally believed to have been given to Moses on Mount Sinai together with the Written Law

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Law of Moses

"The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's."

From Time Magazine Archive

So far the Law of Moses and the Gospel.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by John Ruskin

Eunice then married the father of Timothy, by birth a Greek, but then a proselyte of the gate, worshipping the God of Israel, but not observing the Law of Moses.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Lady Mary Ross

Ve be sent here to obey de Law of Moses.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill

They hoped that Jesus would either deny the orthodox belief as to the resurrection or would make some statement which would contradict the Law of Moses in accordance with which the successive marriages were made.

From The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Charles Rosenbury Erdman