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Definition of Law of moses
1. Noun. The laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Moses
Literary usage of Law of moses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The last two Books of Kings repeatedly speak of the law of Moses. To restrict
the meaning of this term to Deuteronomy is an arbitrary exegesis (cf. ..."
2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"There is no arrangement in the law of Moses by which servants were to be taken
in payment or their master's debts, by which they were to be given as pledges ..."
3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"So that this divine law imposed, of which the law of Moses containeth that which
is called the Old Testament, may be said, not only to have been written in ..."
4. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Apostles' creed, Edward Burton (1847)
"... die by the sentence of the Jews, who had lost the supreme power in causes
capital, and so not to be condemned to any death according to the Law of Moses ..."
5. Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans: with remarks on the commentaries of by Robert Haldane (1874)
"The conclusion, therefore, is, that as sin is not reckoned where there is no law,
and as sin was reckoned, or as it existed, before the law of Moses, ..."
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