LAW OF MOSES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Law of Moses mean? 

• LAW OF MOSES (noun)
  The noun LAW OF MOSES has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: LAW OF MOSES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAW OF MOSES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Law of Moses; Mosaic law

Hypernyms ("Law of Moses" is a kind of...):

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)