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Torah: The First Five Books Of The Bible
The Jews felt that these five books was made up of an authority that the other scripture, the writings and the prophets, did not seem to match up. It is for sure that when the Jews were driven into exile, Moses's books were the ones that were read the most in the synagogues. Since the earliest of times the first five books were taken by the Jews to constitute a unity that was known to them as Law or Torah. The Jews felt that the word Torah described this part of the scripture as this biblical Hebrew term meaning that the "Law" and also the "instruction" or the "teachings" completely characterizes God's communication to the Israelites through

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