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THE PENTATEUCH A The first block Torah The Torah (literary it means ˝teaching˝ or the Law or the Law of Moses˝ (Neh8,1; Cf. Lk,24,44) contains first five books of the Bible and is the most important section of the Hebrew Bible. This is called the Pentateuch in the Greek Bible, deriving from the Greek pentateuchos which means ˝five containers˝ (They must have been preserved in five receptacles). These five books are not merely laws for religious life, instructions or regulations for civic duties, but the will of God or the revelation of the mind of God, or God’s plan for creation of the world and the people of God, and their heritage, which is the land. The first book is called Genesis, deriving from its Greek name Genesis (˝generation˝) in the Septuagint. In the Hebrew Bible each book is known by its first word or words. Thus the Hebrew name Genesis is Bgreshit בראשית (˝ in the beg...