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The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Pentateuch (its Greek name, but also known as the Torah by the Hebrews) consists of the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. From Adam and Eve in the Garden, to Noah’s Ark, to Moses’ parting of the Red Sea, to its conclusion with the death of Moses, the Pentateuch contains some of the most important and memorable stories in Western civilization....

Though the basic meaning of tôrāh is “instruction” or “law,” the Pentateuch or Torah is first and foremost a narrative. The sequence of events may be summarized as follows. God (Elohim) created the world and everything in it in six days and rested on the seventh. The earth, however, was uncultivated, and there was no rainwater and no one to put it to use. God (now YHWH Elohim) therefore formed a man and set him
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