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====Torah====
 
====Torah====
 
The Five books of Moses, in their Hebrew and English names:
 
The Five books of Moses, in their Hebrew and English names:
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*'''Bereisheet''' ("in the beginning"), or [[Genesis]]
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*Bereisheet ("in the beginning"), or [[Genesis]]
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*'''Shemot''' (“names”), or [[Exodus]]
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*Shemot (“names”), or [[Exodus]]
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*'''Vayikra''' (“and God called”), or [[Leviticus]]
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*Vayikra (“and God called”), or [[Leviticus]]
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*'''Bemidbar''' (“in the Wilderness”), or [[Numbers]]
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*Bemidbar (“in the Wilderness”), or [[Numbers]]
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*'''Devarim''' (“words”), or [[Deuteronomy]]
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*Devarim (“words”), or [[Deuteronomy]]
    
The first eleven chapters of ''Genesis'' provide the account of the [[Creation]], the history of God's early relationship with humanity, and the [[Deluge]] of [[Noah]]. The remaining thirty-nine chapters detail the account of God's covenant with the early Hebrew nation, led by the patriarchs [[Abraham]], [[Isaac]] and [[Jacob]] (or Israel), and one of Jacob's children, [[Joseph]]. It tells the beginnings of God's chosen people, of how God commanded Abraham to leave his family and home to settle in the land of [[Canaan]], and how the Children of Israel later moved to Egypt.  The remainder of the Torah, begining with ''Exodus'', tells the story of the great Hebrew leader [[Moses]], and of the Hebrews through their sojurn and slavery in Egypt, their escape from bondage, and their wanderings in the desert until they finaly enter the Promised Land.
 
The first eleven chapters of ''Genesis'' provide the account of the [[Creation]], the history of God's early relationship with humanity, and the [[Deluge]] of [[Noah]]. The remaining thirty-nine chapters detail the account of God's covenant with the early Hebrew nation, led by the patriarchs [[Abraham]], [[Isaac]] and [[Jacob]] (or Israel), and one of Jacob's children, [[Joseph]]. It tells the beginnings of God's chosen people, of how God commanded Abraham to leave his family and home to settle in the land of [[Canaan]], and how the Children of Israel later moved to Egypt.  The remainder of the Torah, begining with ''Exodus'', tells the story of the great Hebrew leader [[Moses]], and of the Hebrews through their sojurn and slavery in Egypt, their escape from bondage, and their wanderings in the desert until they finaly enter the Promised Land.
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