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Law of Moses. El Greco 's View of Mount Sinai (1570–1572), Historical Museum of Crete. The Law of Moses ( Hebrew: תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה Torat Moshe ), also called the Mosaic Law, is the law said to have been revealed to Moses by God. The term primarily refers to the Torah or the first five books of the Hebrew Bible .
A depiction of the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus commented on the Old Covenant.Painting by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter, d. 1890.. The Mosaic covenant or Law of Moses – which Christians generally call the "Old Covenant" (in contrast to the New Covenant) – played an important role in the origins of Christianity and has occasioned serious dispute and controversy since the ...
Four letters, fifty letters apart, starting from the first taw on the first verse, form the word תורה ( Torah ). The Bible code ( Hebrew: הצופן התנ"כי, hatzofen hatanachi ), also known as the Torah code, is a purported set of encoded words within a Hebrew text of the Torah that, according to proponents, has predicted significant ...
The Covenant Code, or Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah, at Exodus 20:22 – 23:19; or, more strictly, the term Covenant Code may be applied to Exodus 21:1–22:16. [ 1] Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes said to have been given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai.
An ordinance is a term used by certain Christian denominations for a religious ritual that was instituted by Jesus for Christians to observe. [1] Examples of ordinances include baptism and the Lord's Supper, both of which are practiced in denominations including the Anabaptist, Baptist, Churches of Christ, and Pentecostal denominations.
In the Hebrew Bible, God established the Mosaic covenant with the Israelites after he saved them from slavery in Egypt in the book of Exodus. Moses led the Israelites to the promised land known as Canaan after which Joshua led them to its possession. The Mosaic covenant played a role in defining the Kingdom of Israel .
The 613 commandments include "positive commandments", to perform an act ( mitzvot aseh ), and "negative commandments", to abstain from an act ( mitzvot lo taaseh ). The negative commandments number 365, which coincides with the number of days in the solar year, and the positive commandments number 248, a number ascribed to the number of bones ...
The Deuteronomic Code is the name given by academics to the law code set out in chapters 12 to 26 of the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible. The code outlines a special relationship between the Israelites and Yahweh and provides instructions covering "a variety of topics including religious ceremonies and ritual purity, civil and criminal law, and the conduct of war".