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It is therefore valuable, not only as throwing light on the life of the people at that early period, but also as illustrating the growth of the pentateuchal literature.

From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Gladden, Washington

But if the pentateuchal author goes further than this, and intends to say that which is ascribed to him by Mr. Gladstone, I think natural science will have to enter a caveat.

From The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature by Huxley, Thomas Henry