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Bible History - The Law of Moses
- AS A TEXT
- Written by Moses
- Written by divine revelation (Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
See All...) –Moses did not need to be there - Written by divine direction (2 Peter 1:21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
See All...) - His birth (Exodus 2:1-2 [1] And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
[2] And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
See All...) - His meekness (Numbers 12:3(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
See All...) - His rebellion (Numbers 20:11-12 [11] And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
[12] And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
See All...,24) - His death (Deuteronomy 34:5-8 [5] So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
[6] And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
[7] And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
[8] And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
See All...) - Titles
- Pentateuch
- Scholarly name
- Means “five books”
- Torah
- Jewish name
- Means “law”
- The Law of Moses
- Biblical name (Ezra 3:2Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
See All...; Ezra 7:6This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
See All...; 1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
See All...) - Bible references: 21 times
- Old Testament: 14 times
- New Testament: 7 times
- One of the Divisions of the Hebrew Bible (Luke 24:44And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
See All...) - The Law of Moses
- The Prophets
- The Writings
- The Five Books
- Genesis
- Name means “beginnings” –compare generations, generate
- Theme: Creation (Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
See All...) - Ends “in a coffin in Egypt”
- Exodus
- Name means “departure”
- Theme: Redemption (Exodus 6:6Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
See All...; Exodus 12:13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
See All...) - Leviticus
- Name means “book of the Levites”
- Theme: Holiness (Leviticus 11:44-45 [44] For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
[45] For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
See All...; Leviticus 19:2Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
See All...; Leviticus 20:7-8 [7] Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. [8] And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
See All...) - Numbers
- Name means “census” or “numbering” -notice that only potential soldiers were counted (Numbers 1:6Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
See All...) - Theme: Warfare (Numbers 31:1-8 [1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[2] Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
[3] And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
[4] Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
[5] So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
[6] And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
[7] And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
[8] And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
See All...) - Deuteronomy
- Name means “second law” -not a new law; but a summary, repetition and application of the Mosaic Law
- Theme: Obedience (Deuteronomy 7:6-11 [6] For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
[7] The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
[8] But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
[9] Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
[10] And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
[11] Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
See All...) - AS A TOPIC
- The Place of the Law in Doctrine -see notes on Romans 7
- The Divisions of the Law of Moses
- By application
- Moral Law
- Basic moral principles
- The ten commandments
- Ceremonial Law
- Man’s duties to God
- Concerns tabernacle, priesthood, sacrifices, feasts, etc.
- Civil Law
- Man’s duties to man
- Concerns families, servants, strangers, crimes, property, justice and various regulations
- By attitude
- From Jewish tradition of 613 commandments ( mitzvot ) in the Mosaic Law
- 365 negative commandments corresponding to the 365 days in a solar year
- 248 positive commandments corresponding to the number of parts in the human body
- By time (traditional)
- Time-bound – commandments which must be observed at a particular time (during the day or during the year)
- Non-time-bound
- By reason (traditional)
- Rational – the reason for doing it can be seen by reason
- Nonrational – cannot be supported by human reason
Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.