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

Of the chaste Susanna it was said that, her parents being righteous, they taught their daughter according to the Law of Moses.

From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain

All the guests after drinking the wine, washed their hands; and then the three things ordered by the Law of Moses, were placed on the table before the master of the house.

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

I will show you Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azevedo da Costa is a man whose word is the Law of Moses; true as the Talmud.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill

"Letter" is the whole Law of Moses, or the Ten Commandments, though the supreme authority of such teaching is not denied.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Martin Luther