The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses
The fifth book of the Torah/Pentateuch; many modern scholars consider it to be part or all of a scroll found during a reform of the temple and its institutions carried out by Josiah in 622 B C E See Part 1
In all the Hebrew manuscripts the Pentateuch (q v ) forms one roll or volume divided into larger and smaller sections called parshioth_ and _sedarim It is not easy to say when it was divided into five books This was probably first done by the Greek translators of the book, whom the Vulgate follows The fifth of these books was called by the Greeks Deuteronomion, i e , the second law, hence our name Deuteronomy, or a second statement of the laws already promulgated The Jews designated the book by the two first Hebrew words that occur, _'Elle haddabharim_, i e , "These are the words " They divided it into eleven parshioth In the English Bible it contains thirty-four chapters