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Adjective- Of or relating to the first five books of the Old Testament.

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  • Chronicles and the mosaic legislation (Essays on Pentateuchal criticism by various writers) by Milton Spenser Terry
  • Patristic and Pentateuchal studies rarely intersect, but if this analogy seems worthy of further exploration, perhaps they should be allowed to more frequently.
  • Pentateuchal Codes ", London, 1886; Bohl," Zum Gesetz und zum
  • Pentateuchal laws is equally true of several historical sections.
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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