What's the difference between deuteronomy and pentateuch?

Deuteronomy


Definition:

  • (n.) The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And you think of the teenage years, of defiance for defiance’s sake, of assertive mockery and the contempt of selective deafness, of constant jockeying for power in a relationship suddenly destabilized – of this fathers-and-sons thing that stretches back 152 years to Turgenev and a further 2,500 years to Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
  • (2) Indeed, orthodox rabbis are still compelled to believe that Moses himself wrote the Books of Moses, including Deuteronomy 34:5: “And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said.
  • (3) In Deuteronomy 21:11–14, marriage is made by selecting a beautiful woman from among the spoils of war, shaving her head and paring her nails.
  • (4) Deuteronomy 23 instructs Jews to excrete outside camp and to carry a spade to bury the result.
  • (5) Deuteronomy institutes another involuntary form of marriage.
  • (6) There have been Buddhist monks in orange robes, Muslims in purple tunics, evangelical Christians with megaphones quoting Deuteronomy, and Socialist Worker Party activists advocating capitalism’s overthrow.
  • (7) Deuteronomy, the Greeks and Shakespeare all tell us this.

Pentateuch


Definition:

  • (n.) The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was perfectly fine – indeed strongly encouraged throughout the Pentateuch – to kill Canaanites, Midianites, Jebusites, Hivites etc, especially if they had the misfortune to live in the Promised Lebensraum.

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