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{{Infobox book
| title = Torah
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| image = The Crossing fo The Red Sea.jpg
| caption = Crossing of the Red Sea
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| elevator pitch =Egypt's Israelite minority has gone from honoured guests to forced labour. Moses, a fugitive with connections to the Egyptian court, reluctantly accepts a call from the Lord to lead them away.
| genre =
| franchise = The Bible
| preceded by = Book of Genesis
| followed by = Book of Judges
| publication date = In its current form, sixth century BCE
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This page will also discuss ''Leviticus'', ''Numbers'', ''Deuteronomy'' and ''Joshua'' for convenience.
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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The Israelites conquer Canaan but it's foretold the next generation will be unfaithful to God. Moses only sees a bit of the Promised Land and dies soon after.
* [[Church Militant]]: Contrary to what you see in [[The Ten Commandments]], the worshipers of the golden calf were not swallowed up by the earth. God had Moses command the Levite priests to slaughter them.
** A priest named Phineas took it very personally when the people of Moab tempted his people into defying God's will and decided to take out the leader of the problem with a [[Blade
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: A close reading of the laws for sacrifices shows there were multiple contingencies in place depending on how well off the party needing to make a sacrifice was. There were also quite detailed contingencies for purification from uncleanliness, resolution of financial disputes, proper religious ceremonial customs, and much care is taken to address every issue that would be potentially relevant to the Israelites socially, politically, and culturally.
** A rather interesting bit of foresight was intended long before they even entered the Promised Land, where if they found someone dead outside a town there and they didn't know who the killer was, an entire detailed ritual is proscribed in advance to exonerate themselves of the guilt of bloodshed if they ever encountered that situation.
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* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Exodus describes an exodus. Deuteronomy means "second law".
* [[Eye for An Eye]]: Many laws for restitution concerning personal injury specified this was an appropriate punishment, though payment was allowed as an alternative in some cases. Also, as opposed to [[The Code of Hammurabi]], such punishments were equal without regard for any class or social standing, so a rich and poor man would lose an eye if they destroyed the eye of someone else in equal measure.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The Gibeonites suckered the Israelites into sparing them from the sword by pretending to be from far away and not local to Canaan, extracting a promise of protection from the Isrealites shortly before they discovered the ruse. The Gibeonites were still protected, as they had been given a promise, but their punishment for the deception was that they were to be the vassal people of the Israelites ever since.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Deut. 17:14 was about how to choose a good Israelite king, centuries [[Books of Samuel|before anyone even thought this was a good idea]].
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