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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Zangwill, Israel

Now in its place Ezra the Scribe made the Book of the Law of Moses the pivot about which the entire life of the people was to revolve.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

For it is written in the Law of Moses, 'Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.'

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William

In His discourses He seems to have confirmed it still more expressly than the Law of Moses.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste