The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism | Page 8

of the Jews (2 Cor. iii. 15) he said: "Even unto _this day, when Moses is read_, the veil is upon their hearts."
Moses must have written something if he was read. What has become of his writings? Is it not the Pentateuch which the Scriptures everywhere call the writings of Moses? Undoubtedly, yes.
In Paul's missionary sermon at Antioch in Pisidia, he declared to his audience that through Christ "all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified _by the law of Moses_" (Acts xiii. 39).
Why does Paul refer to the ceremonial of the Jewish ritual as the law of Moses? It must be answered that Paul was a Jew. He was familiar with the Jewish scriptures. He had read the following passages and believed them, and was grounded in the truth which they declare, that "by the hand of Moses" they were given to the people.
To satisfy the reader that they were "given by the hand of Moses" the following Scriptures are furnished:
1. "Aaron and his sons did all things which were commanded by the hand of Moses." (Lev. viii. 36.)
2. "That ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses." (Lev. x. 11.)
3. "These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses." (Lev. xxvi. 46.)
4. "These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number, according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses." (Num. iv. 37.)
5. "These ... whom Moses and Aaron numbered, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses." (Num. iv. 45.)
6. "According to the commandment of the Lord they were numbered by the hand of Moses." (Num. iv. 49.)
7. "They kept the charge of the Lord, at the commandment of the Lord, _by the hand of Moses._" (Num. ix. 23.)
8. "And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses." (Num. x. 13.)
9. "Even all that the Lord hath commanded you _by the hand of Moses_, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses." (Num. xv. 23.)
10. "That no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as Kora and his company, as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses." (Num. xvi. 40.)
11. "And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses." (Num. xxvii. 23.)
12. "These are the commandments and the judgments which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses." (Num. xxxvi. 13.)
13. "By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses." (Joshua xiv. 2.)
14. "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses." (Joshua xx. 2.)
15. "The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle." (Joshua xxi. 2.)
16. "And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses." (Joshua xxi. 8.)
17. "And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, ... according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses." (Joshua xxii. 9.)
18. "And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses." (Judges iii. 4.)
19. "Thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest _by the hand of Moses, thy servant_." (1 Kings viii. 53.)
20. "There hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant." (1 Kings viii. 56.)
21. "So that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses." (2 Chron. xxxiii. 8.)
22. "To kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses." (2 Chron. xxxv. 6.)
23. "Thou ... madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath, and commandedst unto them precepts, statutes and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant." (Neh. ix. 14.)
24. "Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses