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Mosaic Law

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Mosaic Law
n.
The ancient law of the Hebrews, attributed to Moses and contained in the Pentateuch. Also called Law of Moses.
Mosaic law [məʊˈzeɪɪk]
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Old Testament the laws of the Hebrews ascribed to Moses and contained in the Pentateuch
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Noun1.Mosaic law - 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)
Law of Moses
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"


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Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
There were misshapen bullets and stained knives that had taken human life; there were lithe, lean ropes which had retaliated after the live letter of the Mosaic law.
A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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