Definition of Mosaic law

1. Noun. 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).

Exact synonyms: Law Of Moses
Generic synonyms: Jurisprudence, Law

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosaic Law

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Mortierella
Mortimer
Morton
Morton's neuralgia
Morton's neuroma
Morton's plane
Morton's toe
Morus alba
Morus nigra
Morus rubra
Morvan's chorea
Mosaic
Mosaic law (current term)
Mosaism
Mosaisms
Mosan
Mosander
Moschcowitz' disease
Moschus moschiferus
Moscow
Moscow Time
Moselle
Moselles
Mosenthal test
Moses
Moses Maimonides

Literary usage of Mosaic law

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Besides these there were the Pharisaic Jewish Christians, who insisted upon the observance of the Mosaic law and of circumcision by all, and rejected Paul ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"God is the author of the Mosaic law; he is an enthusiastic admirer of the Temple of Jerusalem, the Jewish land and people, and its holy laws and learned ..."

3. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1892)
"THE Mosaic law IN THE LIGHT OF ETHICS. THE legislator of the Pentateuch is concerned only with practical morality. Abstract psychological and ethical ..."

4. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Application to reward promised in the Mosaic law. ... For the reasons already assigned, I shall first inquire what evidence is furnished by the Mosaic law. ..."

5. An Introduction to the History of the Development of Law by Martin Ferdinand Morris (1909)
"CHAPTER II THE Mosaic law First of all the municipal codes of the world in their importance to us, and relatively also the first in the embodiment of the ..."

6. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"The distinction between the absolute and the relative applies to the entire Mosaic law, to its distinctively ethical as well as its confessedly ceremonial ..."

7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Besides these there were the Pharisaic Jewish Christians, who insisted upon the observance of the Mosaic law and of circumcision by all, and rejected Paul ..."

8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"God is the author of the Mosaic law; he is an enthusiastic admirer of the Temple of Jerusalem, the Jewish land and people, and its holy laws and learned ..."

9. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1892)
"THE Mosaic law IN THE LIGHT OF ETHICS. THE legislator of the Pentateuch is concerned only with practical morality. Abstract psychological and ethical ..."

10. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Application to reward promised in the Mosaic law. ... For the reasons already assigned, I shall first inquire what evidence is furnished by the Mosaic law. ..."

11. An Introduction to the History of the Development of Law by Martin Ferdinand Morris (1909)
"CHAPTER II THE Mosaic law First of all the municipal codes of the world in their importance to us, and relatively also the first in the embodiment of the ..."

12. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"The distinction between the absolute and the relative applies to the entire Mosaic law, to its distinctively ethical as well as its confessedly ceremonial ..."

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