Pentateuch

Definition

The five books of Moses, called he Pentateuchos or liber in five parts; the first and foundational portion of the Old Testament canon.

Episodes

Biblical References

  • Deuteronomy 31:26 — “Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,
  • Joshua 1:8 — *This law scroll must not leave your lips. You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Then you will prosper and be successful. *
  • Nehemiah 8:2, 7, 13 — So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly which included men and women and all those able to understand what they heard. (This happened on the first day of the seventh month.) Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah,…
  • 2 Chronicles 25:4 — However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, and sons must not be executed for what their fathers…
  • Exodus 6:3 — I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord’ I was not known to them.