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pentateuch

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The Pentateuch is the first part of the Bible, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. It can also refer to: Ashburnham Pentateuch — late 6th- or early 7th-century Latin illuminated manuscript of the Pentateuch. Chumash — printed ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
first five books of the Bible, c.1400, from Late Latin pentateuchus (Tertullian, c.207), from Greek pentateukhos (c.160), originally an adjective (abstracted from phrase pentateukhos biblos ), from pente "five" (see five ) + teukhos "implement, vessel, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pentateuch \Pen"ta*teuch\, n. [L. pentateuchus, Gr. ?; ? (see Penta- ) + ? a tool, implement, a book, akin to ? to prepare, make ready, and perh. to E. text. See Five , and Text .] The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also ...

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Pentateuch, which we shall examine, according to the principles of these pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God himself, but as the production of a mere human writer and historian.