THE TARGUMS

OF

ONKELOS AND JONATHAN BEN UZZIEL

ON THE PENTATEUCH.

LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY.

TRANSLATOR OF THE NEW TESTAMENT FROM THE PESCHITO SYRIAC.

LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY.

"THIS provision, (the Paraphrase,) made by men, was directed by the Ruler of
Providence, in His love for the remnant of His people, to afford us stay and
staff in His Torah, His laws and precepts, till the time of the Redemption
shall arrive, when He will raise from the dust the fallen tabernacle of David,
and say to the daughter of Zion, Awake, arise."

MENDELSSOHN.

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GLOSSARY

OF HIERATIC AND LEGAL TERMS

IN THE

PENTATEUCH;

ON THE BEST AUTHORITIES, CHRISTIAN AND RABBINICAL.

THE biblical title of the Mosaic writings most usually employed is HA TORAH, "the Law;" from yarah, "to teach," or "direct:"-" the Law of the Lord," to assert its true origin and authority; and "the Law of Moses," to denote the mediatorial agency by which it was given to mankind. The common conventional title, "the Pentateuch," is a combination of the Greek words, TEÛXOS, "a volume," and Tévre, "five;" "the Fiveτεύχος, fold Book;" which corresponds with the Rabbinical appellation of Chamishah Chumeshe hattorah, "the Five Fifths of the Law." Whether this division was made by the author, or the entire work was composed by him in one continuous treatise, cannot be fully ascertained. The five books, as we now classify them, are not distinguished in the original Hebrew by any other specific titles than the initial words. Thus Genesis, from its first word, is called Bereshith, "In the beginning; Exodus, Ve Elleh Shemoth, "These are the names;" Leviticus, Vaiyikra, " And he called;" Numbers, Vaidabber, "And he spoke," with the current title of Bemidbar, "In the wilderness;" while Deuteronomy takes its name from the first two words, Elleh Hadde

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