English noun: Mosaic law | |||
1. | Mosaic law (group) 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) | ||
Synonyms | Law of Moses | ||
Broader (hypernym) | jurisprudence, law | ||