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Law of Moses
Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kgs 2:3; 2 Kgs 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut 1:5; Deut 4:8, Deut 4:44; Deut 17:18, Deut 17:19; Deut 27:3, Deut 27:8). As a written code it is called the “book of the law of Moses” (2 Kgs 14:6; Isa 8:20), the “book of the law of God” (Josh 24:26).
The great leading principle of the Mosaic law is that it is essentially theocratic; i.e., it refers at once to the commandment of God as the foundation of all human duty.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
