The Law of Moses
113 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
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- A Means of National Reformation
- A Schoolmaster to Lead to Christ
- A Shadow of Good Things to Come
- Additions Made To, in the Plains of Moab by Jordan
- All Israelites Required: To Know
- All Israelites Required: To Lay Up, in Their Hearts
- All Israelites Required: To Observe
- All Israelites Required: To Remember
- All Israelites Required: To Teach Their Children
- Book of, Laid up in the Sanctuary
- Called: A Fiery Law
- Called: Book of Moses
- Called: Book of the Law
- Called: Lively Oracles
- Called: Ministration of Condemnation
- Called: Ministration of Death
- Called: Royal Law
- Called: Word Spoken by Angels
- Christ: Abrogated, As a Covenant of Works
- Christ: Attended all Feasts of
- Christ: Bore the Curse of
- Christ: Came not to Destroy but to Fulfil
- Christ: Circumcised According To
- Christ: Fulfilled all Precepts of
- Christ: Fulfilled all Types and Shadows of
- Christ: Made Under
- Christ: Magnified and Made Honorable
- Could not Disannul the Covenant of Grace Made in Christ
- Could not Give Righteous and Life
- Darkness at Giving of, Illustrative of Obscurity of
- Divided Into: A Covenant of Works to the Jews As a Nation
- Divided Into: Ceremonial, Relating to Manner of Worshipping God
- Divided Into: Civil, Relating to Administration of Justice
- Divided Into: Moral, Embodied in the Ten Commandments
- Entire of, Written in a Book
- Given by Disposition of Angels
- Given in the Desert
- Given: After the Exodus
- Given: At Horeb
- Given: from the Mount Sinai
- Given: Through Moses As Mediator
- Given: To No Other Nation
- Given: To the Jews
- Good Kings Enforced
- Jewish Converts Would Have all Christians Observe
- Kings to Write and Study
- None to Approach the Mount While God Gave
- Priests and Levites to Teach
- Public Instruction Given to Youth In
- Publicly Read by Ezra
- Publicly Read by Joshua
- Publicly Read in the Synagogues Every Sabbath Day
- Publicly Read: At the Feast of Tabernacles in the Sabbatical Year
- Rehearsed by Moses
- Remarkable Phenomena Connected With, at Giving of
- Tables of, Laid up in the Ark
- Taught the Jews: All Punishments Awarded According To
- Taught the Jews: Strict Justice and Impartiality
- Taught the Jews: To Love and Fear God
- Taught the Jews: To Love Their Neighbour
- Terror of Israel at Receiving
- The Jews: Accused Christ of Breaking
- The Jews: Accused Christians of Speaking
- The Jews: Broke It Themselves
- The Jews: Dishonoured God by Breaking
- The Jews: from Regard To, Rejected Christ
- The Jews: Held Those Ignorant of, Accursed
- The Jews: Jealous For
- The Jews: Shall be Judged By
- The Scribes Were Learned In, and Expounded
A Means of National Reformation
- 2 Chronicles 34:19–21 When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes …
- Nehemiah 8:13–18 On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law. …
A Schoolmaster to Lead to Christ
- Galatians 3:24 So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
A Shadow of Good Things to Come
- Hebrews 10:1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Additions Made To, in the Plains of Moab by Jordan
- Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
All Israelites Required: To Know
- Exodus 18:16 “Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
All Israelites Required: To Lay Up, in Their Hearts
- Deuteronomy 6:6 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
- Deuteronomy 11:18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
All Israelites Required: To Observe
- Deuteronomy 4:6 Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
- Deuteronomy 6:2 so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
All Israelites Required: To Remember
- Malachi 4:4 “Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
All Israelites Required: To Teach Their Children
- Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 11:19 Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Book of, Laid up in the Sanctuary
- Deuteronomy 31:26 “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.
Called: A Fiery Law
- Deuteronomy 33:2 He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
Called: Book of Moses
- 2 Chronicles 25:4 Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to …
- 2 Chronicles 35:12 They set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And they did the same with the bulls.
Called: Book of the Law
- Deuteronomy 30:10 if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Joshua 1:8 This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
Called: Lively Oracles
- Acts 7:38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
Called: Ministration of Condemnation
- 2 Corinthians 3:9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
Called: Ministration of Death
- 2 Corinthians 3:7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
Called: Royal Law
- James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Called: Word Spoken by Angels
- Hebrews 2:2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
Christ: Abrogated, As a Covenant of Works
- Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
Christ: Attended all Feasts of
- John 2:23 While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
- John 7:2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
- John 7:10 But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went — not publicly, but in secret.
- John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
Christ: Bore the Curse of
- Deuteronomy 21:23 you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
Christ: Came not to Destroy but to Fulfil
- Matthew 5:17–18 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. …
Christ: Circumcised According To
- Luke 2:21 When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.
- Romans 15:8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
Christ: Fulfilled all Precepts of
- Psalm 40:7–8 Then I said, “Here I am, I have come — it is written about me in the scroll: …
Christ: Fulfilled all Types and Shadows of
- Hebrews 9:8 By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
- Hebrews 10:1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Christ: Made Under
- Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Christ: Magnified and Made Honorable
- Isaiah 42:21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
Could not Disannul the Covenant of Grace Made in Christ
- Galatians 3:17 What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
Could not Give Righteous and Life
- Galatians 3:21 Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.
- Romans 8:3–4 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh, …
- Hebrews 10:1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Darkness at Giving of, Illustrative of Obscurity of
- Hebrews 12:18–24 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm; …
Divided Into: A Covenant of Works to the Jews As a Nation
- Deuteronomy 28:1 “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Jeremiah 31:32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
Divided Into: Ceremonial, Relating to Manner of Worshipping God
- Leviticus 7:37–38 This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering, …
- Hebrews 9:1–7 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. …
Divided Into: Civil, Relating to Administration of Justice
- Deuteronomy 17:9–11 You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case. …
- Acts 23:3 Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”
- Acts 24:6 and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.
Divided Into: Moral, Embodied in the Ten Commandments
- Deuteronomy 5:22 The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
- Deuteronomy 10:4 And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,
Entire of, Written in a Book
- Deuteronomy 31:9 So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
Given by Disposition of Angels
- Acts 7:53 you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
Given in the Desert
- Ezekiel 20:10–11 So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness. …
Given: After the Exodus
- Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,
- Psalm 81:4–5 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. …
Given: At Horeb
- Deuteronomy 4:10 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
- Deuteronomy 4:15 So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
- Deuteronomy 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
Given: from the Mount Sinai
- Exodus 19:11 and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
- Exodus 19:20 The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
Given: Through Moses As Mediator
- Deuteronomy 5:5 At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
- Deuteronomy 5:27–28 Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.” …
- John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- Galatians 3:19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
Given: To No Other Nation
- Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
- Psalm 147:20 He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
Given: To the Jews
- Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
- Psalm 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
Good Kings Enforced
- 2 Kings 23:24–25 Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the …
- 2 Chronicles 31:21 He acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
Jewish Converts Would Have all Christians Observe
- Acts 15:1 Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Kings to Write and Study
- Deuteronomy 17:18–19 When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. …
None to Approach the Mount While God Gave
- Exodus 19:13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows — whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
- Exodus 19:21–24 and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish. …
- Hebrews 12:20 For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”
Priests and Levites to Teach
- Deuteronomy 33:8–10 Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah. …
- Nehemiah 8:7 The Levites — Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah — instructed the people in the Law as they stood in their places.
- Malachi 2:7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
Public Instruction Given to Youth In
- Luke 2:46 Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
- Acts 22:3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.
Publicly Read by Ezra
- Nehemiah 8:2–3 On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand. …
Publicly Read by Joshua
- Joshua 8:34–35 Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law— the blessings and the curses— according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. …
Publicly Read in the Synagogues Every Sabbath Day
- Acts 13:15 After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them: “Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak.”
- Acts 15:21 For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
Publicly Read: At the Feast of Tabernacles in the Sabbatical Year
- Deuteronomy 31:10–13 Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles, …
Rehearsed by Moses
- Deuteronomy 1:1–3 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan — in the Arabah opposite Suph — between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. …
Remarkable Phenomena Connected With, at Giving of
- Exodus 19:16–19 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled. …
Tables of, Laid up in the Ark
- Deuteronomy 10:5 and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.
Taught the Jews: All Punishments Awarded According To
- John 8:5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”
- John 19:7 “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
- Hebrews 10:28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Taught the Jews: Strict Justice and Impartiality
- Leviticus 19:35–36 You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. …
Taught the Jews: To Love and Fear God
- Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Deuteronomy 10:12–13 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, …
- Matthew 22:36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”
- Matthew 22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
Taught the Jews: To Love Their Neighbour
- Leviticus 19:18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- Matthew 22:39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Terror of Israel at Receiving
- Exodus 19:16 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
- Exodus 20:18–20 When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance. …
- Deuteronomy 5:5 At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
- Deuteronomy 5:23–25 And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me, …
The Jews: Accused Christ of Breaking
- John 19:7 “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
The Jews: Accused Christians of Speaking
- Acts 6:11–14 Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.” …
- Acts 21:28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
The Jews: Broke It Themselves
- John 7:19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
The Jews: Dishonoured God by Breaking
- Romans 2:23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
The Jews: from Regard To, Rejected Christ
- Romans 9:31–33 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. …
The Jews: Held Those Ignorant of, Accursed
- John 7:49 But this crowd that does not know the law— they are under a curse.”
The Jews: Jealous For
- John 9:28–29 Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses. …
- Acts 21:20 When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
The Jews: Shall be Judged By
- John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
- Romans 2:12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
The Scribes Were Learned In, and Expounded
- Ezra 7:6 this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.
- Matthew 23:2 “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.