Pentateuch (Hebrew. חֲמִשָּׁה חֻמְשֵׁי תּוֹרָה - Hamish humshey Torah or Hebrew. חֻמָּשׁ - Chumash), the so-called Law of Moses - the first five books of the canonical Jewish and Christian Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Pentateuch forms the first part of the Jewish Tanakh - Torah. The word "Torah" is a literal translation from Greek - πεντάτευχος from πεντε - «Five" and τευχος - «that book." The book of Genesis tells the story of Creation and the formation of the Jews as a family; • Exodus has a prologue and an epilogue, separating it from other books and tells of the Exodus from Egypt, the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai and the construction of the tabernacle - that is, the design of the sons of Israel as the Jewish people; • The book of Leviticus is devoted mainly priestly legislation and the temple service; • Book of Numbers tells the story of the Jews wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt;
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- Version 9.0.0 posted on 2016-04-06
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- Category: Education > Reference Tools
- Publisher: Andron
- License: Free
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- Version: 9.0.0
- Platform: android