Pentateuch
noun
Usually the Pentateuch the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Pentateuchal
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a word derived from
Pentateuch.
Example Sentences
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The result of this was that a writer who had had a new revelation was forced to ascribe his account of it to one of the canonical prophets or one of the Pentateuchal patriarchs.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955
The belief underlies the Pentateuchal enactments regarding the holding of the soil, which is only to be temporary.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
The two volumes of Professor Bacon, of Yale, have been recognized by the foremost scholars of Great Britain and Germany as containing original contributions toward the solution of the problem of Pentateuchal analysis.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
This father seems to have made a sort of mélange of some of the Pentateuchal ordinances.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
So far as this question is concerned, on all points which can be tested, the Pentateuchal writer states that which is not true.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
