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

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 John William Burgon

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

Civil law does not extort them by threats and punishment, but commends and rewards them, as does the Law of Moses.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker

On the 18th he desired another audience, and again confessed that he believed in the Law of Moses.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente